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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walks to the chamber after speaking with Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., right, as lawmakers rush to complete passage of a $1.7 trillion bill to fund the government before a midnight Friday deadline or face the prospect of a partial government shutdown going into the Christmas holiday, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate hits snag in bid to pass $1.7 trillion spending bill

Momentum toward passing a $1.7 trillion government funding bill with more aid for Ukraine has slowed considerably as lawmakers struggle to reach an agreement on amendments to the bill.

Independent Evan McMullin speaks to supporters during an election-night event on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Taylorsville, Utah. McMullin is trying to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican, in the Nov. 8, 2022 election. (AP Photo/Alex Goodlett)

McMullin loss in Utah raises independent candidacy questions

Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee celebrates as he speaks to supporters during an election night party on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah Republican Mike Lee wins reelection to US Senate

FILE- Independent Evan McMullin speaks during a campaign event on Oct. 20, 2022, in Salt Lake City. Tech companies and Democratic Party-aligned groups are among those funneling millions into Utah to support McMullin's bid to unseat Lee. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Democrats, tech leaders fund PAC to boost McMullin in Utah

Independent Evan McMullin speaks during a campaign event Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, in Salt Lake City. The race for Utah's U.S. Senate seat is the most competitive the reliably red state has seen in decades. Republican Sen. Mike Lee acknowledges that his race with McMullin will likely be close. The race has taken shape as a referendum on the direction former President Donald Trump has taken the GOP. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah Senate race: Referendum on direction Trump has led GOP

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N. Carolina Sen. Lee new budget chairman in upcoming session

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Veteran state Sen. Michael Lee of New Hanover County has been elevated to one of the chief Senate budget-writing positions for the next two years, presumptive Senate leader Phil Berger announced on Tuesday.

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, right, and his independent challenger Evan McMullin shake hands before their televised debate, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, in Orem, Utah, three weeks before Election Day. The debate will be the only time the candidates appear together in the lead-up to next month's midterm elections. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mike Lee tries to distance himself from Trump in Utah debate

U.S. Senator Mike Lee has used a debate with his challenger Monday evening to try to draw a distinction between his record and former President Donald Trump’s.

FILE - South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during the Family Leadership Summit, July 16, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. A South Dakota ethics board is keeping it a secret what action they have taken after finding that there was evidence Gov. Noem improperly intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Gov. Kristi Noem sued over release of travel expense records

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is facing a lawsuit after her office refused to release expense records on five out-of-state trips this year to a liberal watchdog group.

Utah's Evan McMullin speaks during an interview on July 23, 2022, in Provo, Utah. McMullin is emerging as the nation’s most competitive independent candidate running for U.S. Senate in the 2022 midterm elections. With both parties jockeying for control of Congress, the former Republican's bid against Donald Trump ally Mike Lee has transformed the reliably Republican state from electoral afterthought into potential battleground. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah’s Evan McMullin upends two-party fight for US Senate

Utah’s Evan McMullin is emerging as the nation’s most competitive independent candidate running for U.S. Senate in the 2022 midterm elections.

FILE - Quad Cities River Bandits players warm up before a Class-A Midwest League baseball game against the Cedar Rapids Kernels in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Monday, May 13, 2019. Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to explain the impact of potential legislation stripping the sport’s antitrust exemption from covering the sport’s relationship with minor league players. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Senators ask MLB why antitrust exemption needed in minors

Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to explain the impact of potential legislation stripping the sport’s antitrust exemption from covering the sport’s relationship with minor league players.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, walks out with his family in the background to declare victory to supporters during a Utah Republican primary-night party Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in South Jordan, Utah. Lee defeated two challengers in the primary. (AP Photo/George Frey)

Sen. Mike Lee brushes off opponents to win Utah GOP primary

Sen. Mike Lee has won Utah’s Republican primary by brushing off attacks from two challengers who didn’t vote for former President Donald Trump in 2020.

Utah Rep. Burgess Owens, from left, and Utah U.S. Sen. Mike Lee listens to Utah Rep. Chris Stewart (right) talk to supporters during an Utah Republican election night party on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in South Jordan, Utah. (AP Photo/George Frey)

Utah’s GOP Congressmen handily defeat primary challengers

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) — All four members of the U.S. House from Utah defeated Republican primary challengers Tuesday, advancing to the November election where they’ll face Democratic challengers whose primaries were not contested.

FILE - Sen. Richard Durbin speaks before Vice President Kamala Harris at the C.W. Avery Family YMCA in Plainfield, Ill., Friday, June 24, 2022. The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to an advocacy group for minor leaguers asking questions about baseball's antitrust exemption. Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who chairs the committee, and Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, sent the letter Tuesday, June 28, to Harry Marino, executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers.(Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

Senators ask minor leaguers for information on MLB antitrust

The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to an advocacy group for minor leaguers asking questions about baseball’s antitrust exemption.

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Incumbent U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, right, speaks as former state lawmaker Becky Edwards, left, and political staffer Ally Isom, center, looks on during a Republican primary debate Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Draper, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mike Lee weathers intraparty attacks at Utah GOP debate

DRAPER, Utah (AP) — Two Republicans took aim at a politician known as one of former President Donald Trump’s most devoted allies on Wednesday, attacking incumbent Sen.

FILE - President Donald Trump stands with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Dec. 4, 2017, at the Utah State Capitol, after Trump traveled to Salt Lake City to announce plans to shrink two sprawling national monuments in Utah. Lee has avoided serious challenge in deeply conservative Utah in the dozen years since he came to power in a Tea Party wave, but that's changing this year as he faces two GOP challengers and a newly empowered independent. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Utah Sen. Mike Lee braces for toughest reelection fight yet

Republican Sen. Mike Lee has avoided serious challenge in deeply conservative Utah in the dozen years since he came to power in a tea party wave.

FILE - Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin and his running mate Mindy Finn watch results come in during a election night watch party, on Nov. 8, 2016, in Salt Lake City. Utah Democrats pulling hard to defeat Republican Sen. Mike Lee took the unusual step Saturday, April 23, 2022, of spurning a party hopeful to instead get behind McMullin, an independent and former presidential candidate. Democrats were swayed by calls from prominent members who said McMullin, a conservative who captured a significant share of the vote in Utah in 2016, was the best chance to beat Lee in the deeply conservative state that hasn't elected a Democratic U.S. senator for more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Utah Democrats back independent as US Senate candidate

Utah Democrats pulling hard to defeat Republican Sen. Mike Lee took the unusual step Saturday of spurning a party hopeful to instead get behind an independent, former presidential candidate Evan McMullin.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, looks to a tablet during Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, March 22, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Texts show Utah Sen. Lee’s early work to overturn election

Utah Sen. Mike Lee worked on early efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, helping push legally dubious schemes to keep then-President Donald Trump in power, before he shifted course and quickly backed away.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, looks to a tablet during Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, March 22, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Texts show Utah Sen. Lee’s early work to overturn election

Utah Sen. Mike Lee worked on early efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, helping push legally dubious schemes to keep then-President Donald Trump in power, before he shifted course and quickly backed away.

Nucor Steel Vice President Mike Lee holds a trophy after the steel made by his company was named the coolest thing made in South Carolina in a vote handled by the South Carolina Manufacturing Alliance at a news conference on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Nucor steel wins competition to be coolest thing made in SC

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nucor steel has been voted the coolest thing made in South Carolina in a contest by the South Carolina Manufacturing Alliance.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tells reporters that the Senate will get the work done to fund the government before the Friday midnight deadline, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate sends Biden bill averting federal shutdown

The Senate has sent President Joe Biden a bill averting a weekend government shutdown. The measure will keep agencies afloat through March 11.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tells reporters that the Senate will get the work done to fund the government before the Friday midnight deadline, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate sends Biden bill averting federal shutdown

The Senate has sent President Joe Biden a bill averting a weekend government shutdown. The measure will keep agencies afloat through March 11.

FILE - A rebuilt watchtower stands at Camp Amache, on Jan. 18, 2015, the site of a former World War II-era Japanese-American internment camp in Granada, Colo. On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the forced internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans at the onset of World war II, Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is getting backlash for holding up the creation of a national historic site at the former internment camp in extreme southeast Colorado. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

Utah senator drops opposition, internment camp bill advances

DENVER (AP) — A proposal to create a national historic site at a former World War II Japanese American internment camp in rural Colorado has passed the U.S.

FILE - A rebuilt watchtower stands at Camp Amache, on Jan. 18, 2015, the site of a former World War II-era Japanese-American internment camp in Granada, Colo. On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the forced internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans at the onset of World war II, Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is getting backlash for holding up the creation of a national historic site at the former internment camp in extreme southeast Colorado. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

Utah senator blocks internment camp designation, draws ire

Utah Sen. Mike Lee is facing backlash from Japanese Americans and conservation groups after blocking a proposal to create a national historic site at a former internment camp in rural Colorado.

Evan McMullin, who is running as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Lee, poses in Memory Grove Park in Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. Campaign finance fillings detailing the final three months of last year show McMullin raised more than $1 million, which is almost double Lee's haul. However, he begins the midterm election year with less than half the campaign funds of Lee, who raised more over the course of 2021. (AP Photo/Sam Metz)

Evan McMullin outraises GOP incumbent Sen. Lee in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An independent candidate challenging U.S. Sen. Mike Lee in Utah raised more in campaign contributions than the incumbent Republican in the final quarter of 2021, setting the stage for a costly Senate race in a state where sitting Republicans typically cruise to victory.

Texas deputies fatally shoot suspect in earlier shooting

HOUSTON (AP) — A man wanted in the fatal shooting of a Houston restaurant manager was shot and killed by deputies in northeast Houston, according to Harris County sheriff’s officials.

Senate Judiciary approves Connors as US attorney for Hawaii

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved President Joe Biden’s nomination of Clare Connors to be the next U.S. attorney for Hawaii.

Evan McMullin walks back to his car after an interview in Salt Lake City, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. McMullin is running for Sen. Mike Lee's seat as an independent. (Jeffrey D. Allred/The Deseret News via AP)

Third-party conservative challenges Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin launched a campaign Tuesday to challenge Republican Sen.

Senate passes proposal for uniform “Made in America” labels

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Former lawmakers launches campaign challenging Sen. Mike Lee

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Utah state lawmaker launched a campaign Thursday to challenge Republican Sen. Mike Lee for his U.S. Senate seat next year.

Maine senator wants reforms for drug sentencing rules

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Boxes of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are shown at the McKesson Corporation in Shepherdsville, Ky., Monday, March 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, Pool)

States easing virus restrictions despite experts’ warnings

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — With the U.S. vaccination drive picking up speed and a third formula on the way, states eager to reopen for business are easing coronavirus restrictions despite warnings from health experts that the outbreak is far from over and that moving too quickly could prolong the misery.

Utah GOP defends Romney amid criticism over impeachment vote

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Republican Party has defended Sen. Mitt Romney after an online motion accused him of misrepresenting himself as a Republican and embarrassing the state by voting against former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trials.

In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)

AP FACT CHECK: The senator and Trump’s misdialed phone call

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial hit a snag when Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah objected to how Democrats characterized a phone call from the president when the Capitol insurrection was raging.