Sam Greenglass

Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.

The most alive I've ever been.

Kiss me and I might drop dead.

Funding for DHS was first caught up in debate between Republicans and Democrats over funding for two of its agencies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.

Senate Republicans struck a deal with Democrats, blessed by the White House, to separate ICE and Border Patrol,

so funding could flow again to other agencies like TSA and the Coast Guard.

But when that measure reached the House, it sat for a month amid disagreements within the GOP.

The House finally acted as money that Trump was using to keep paychecks flowing to many DHS workers was set to run out.

Republicans are advancing a separate measure to fund ICE and Border Patrol using a maneuver Democrats can't block.

Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act resulted in the creation of more than a dozen protected majority Black districts in the South.

In ruling Louisiana's congressional map an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, the court opened the door for GOP-led states to eliminate districts drawn to be majority Black.

Terri Sewell is a Democratic congresswoman from Alabama.

Some Republicans are calling on legislatures to pass new maps now, but that will be tricky given that primaries are soon in some states.

Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.

Anger toward King George III helped unite disparate colonies.

250 years later, King Charles III seemed to remind a polarized Congress, at least briefly, what its members share among themselves.

Another common principle, the king said, is subjecting executive power to checks and balances, a point not lost on a Congress that has repeatedly ceded authority.

Even after that line, many lawmakers jumped to their feet to applaud.

A few remain seated.