Jennifer Bendery is a senior politics reporter for HuffPost. She has covered Congress and the White House for HuffPost since April 2011. She previously reported on Congress for four years for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and spent four years covering the Texas Legislature for GalleryWatch in Austin, TX. She also worked in book publishing for three years in San Francisco and was a health care policy reporter for two years in Providence, RI.
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Senate Confirms First-Ever Muslim American Federal Judge
Zahid Quraishi, 46, now holds a lifetime seat on a U.S. district court in New Jersey.
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Joe Manchin's Empty Gesture To Require Fair Pay For The U.S. Women's Soccer Team
If he won't support ending the Senate filibuster, his support for legislation is meaningless.
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Senate Confirms 1st Judicial Nominee Of Joe Biden’s Administration
Julien Xavier Neals, 56, will now be a lifetime judge on a U.S. district court.
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The 139 Republicans Who Lied, Fueled An Insurrection And Then Voted To Cover It Up
Don't forget the names of these GOP lawmakers who chose Donald Trump over American democracy. Twice.
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Senate Confirms Kristen Clarke To Lead DOJ's Civil Rights Division
Clarke will be the first woman, and first Black woman, to run the powerful division created in 1957. Every Republican but one voted against her.
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CNN Drops Rick Santorum After Racist Comments About Native Americans
The former GOP senator lost his contract with the network after claiming there was "nothing" in America before white colonizers arrived.
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GOP Lies Fueled The Capitol Riot. Of Course They Don't Want A Panel To Expose That.
House Republicans opposed to a Jan. 6 commission also spread lies of a stolen election -- the same lies that led to the insurrection. They know that.
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Native Groups Launch 'Day Of Action' Amid CNN's Silence On Rick Santorum’s Racism
Advocates are holding a #RemoveRick tweetstorm as celebrity allies rip the network as "a willing participant in the erasure of Native peoples."
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House Votes To Establish Capitol Riot Commission Over Republican Opposition
The vote sets up a showdown with the Senate, where the GOP's Mitch McConnell opposes creating an outside panel to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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Mitch McConnell Opposes Bipartisan Commission On Jan. 6 Attack
Republican leaders in both the House and Senate now oppose a plan to investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Nancy Pelosi: 'Appalling' That Republicans Deny The Jan. 6 Attack Even Happened
"It was beyond denial," the House speaker said of the GOP comparing the Capitol insurrection to a normal tourist visit. "It fell into the range of sick."
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There Are Only 2 Native American Federal Judges. Biden Just Nominated A Third.
The president tapped Lauren J. King for a U.S. district court seat. If confirmed, she'd be one of just a handful of Indigenous judges in U.S. history.
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Texas GOP Passes Bill To Stop Teachers From Talking About Racism
"It's going to have a chilling effect on social studies and civics teachers across the state," said Democratic state Rep. James Talarico.
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CNN Advertisers Silent On Rick Santorum's Racist Comments About Native Americans
Does anybody care about sharing airtime with a guy who said "nothing" existed in America before white colonizers arrived?
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Racial Justice Groups Rip CNN For Giving Cover To Rick Santorum's Racism
"CNN intrinsically ties itself to a blatantly racist commentator" by going silent after his comments about Native Americans, say the groups.
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Deb Haaland 'Absolutely' Focused On Tackling Violence Against Native Women
"Women are going missing," the interior secretary told HuffPost. “We need to build the opportunities for law enforcement and for people ... to care about this."
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Deb Haaland: 'Unfortunate' That Rick Santorum Doesn't Know Native American History
The interior secretary said she could recommend some books to the former GOP senator who said "nothing" was in America before white colonizers.
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Democrat Cheri Bustos Announces Retirement From Congress
The Illinois lawmaker will finish out her term, but said she is ready for something new after serving in the House for 10 years.
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Senate Holds Hearing On Biden's First Batch Of Judicial Nominees
All five of the president’s court picks were people of color and three were women — a sharp contrast to Trump’s legacy.
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Rick Santorum Says 'Nothing' Was In America Before White Colonizers Arrived
"I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture," said the CNN commentator.