Check out the latest edition of The Readback, our weekend digest featuring the best of Punchbowl News this week: punchbowl.news/archive/5312...

Check out The Readback. We dive into our kickoff event for the WHCA weekend, Rep. Derek Tran’s take on the Democratic primaries, the young Dems taking on the old guard, the GOP’s Medicaid mess and more:
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From THE VAULT: The Senate is ready for stablecoins, Sen. Warren prepares for the tax fight, we reveal our SALT survey results, and it’s the Senate’s turn to put its stamp on the tax bill:
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Check out The Readback, a quick roundup of all our analysis and Capitol Hill insight. Plus, reporters take us behind the scenes of their latest scops:
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For @brendanpedersen.bsky.social, the real treat last week was watching the committees he covers change in big ways. Here’s the committee news you need to know:
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The Senate’s first order of business in the 119th Congress was to move forward with an immigration bill that didn’t see the light of day last year.

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The warm welcome Trump received from GOP senators on Wednesday night belies the fact that there are still a handful of powerful Trump skeptics among that group who could have a major influence on Trump’s second term.

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The House Freedom Caucus has suddenly become leadership friendly…for now at least.

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Mike Johnson clinched the speaker’s gavel Friday on the first ballot — but not without a little drama.

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As a congressional reporter, Max Cohen has learned to read House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries well. But last week, he saw a different side of Jeffries as we hurtled toward the prospect of a government shutdown:
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Forget about crypto for a second. The next chair of the House Financial Services Committee has been pushing for innovation in the banking sector for nearly half a century.

More from @brendanpedersen.bsky.social in The Readback:
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When CR talks are running into the weekend and demands are flying, it’s always a little risky to think you’ll have a calm weekend as a policy reporter.

In The Readback, Laura takes us behind the scenes:
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Last week, the place to be for Senate reporters was outside of Republican offices gathering news on President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees — including Pete Hegseth.

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From lawmaker to advocate, a father pleads with Capitol Hill for action on the Kids Online Safety Act and the Take It Down Act.
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Today in Punchbowl News' The Vault Lookahead:
- To reconciliation once or twice. That’s the question
- Fact and fiction inside crypto’s ‘debanking’ frenzy
- Lights, camera, action: Tax leaders hit the networks
- GOP staffers think the corporate rate is staying put
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