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Senate Democrats forge ahead with messaging bill on gas price gouging

Light from the morning sun illuminates the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. With Democrats holding a thin majority in Congress, passage of President Joe Biden's sweeping legislative agenda will be a challenge as negotiations continue in the 50-50 Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Senate inched closer to passing legislation Wednesday that would expand the Federal Trade Commission’s powers and create a subunit to investigate whether Big Oil is bilking drivers at the pump.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., takes a question during a news conference following a closed-door policy lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer admits gun-control push will fail, hopes for bipartisan compromise

A law enforcement officer helps people cross the street at Uvalde Memorial Hospital after a shooting was reported earlier in the day at Robb Elementary School, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (Billy Calzada/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

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Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer who represented the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, leaves federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, May 16, 2022. A jury was picked Monday in the trial of a lawyer for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign who is accused of lying to the FBI as it investigated potential ties between Donald Trump and Russia in 2016. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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This undated photo provided by Washington County (Ark), Detention Center shows Josh Duggar. The former reality TV star is returning to federal court in Arkansas, where a judge could sentence him to up to 20 years in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. Prosecutors on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 are seeking a maximum sentence for Duggar, whose large family was the focus of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” reality show. (Washington County Detention Center via AP)

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Kids holding signs against critical race theory stand on stage near Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as he addresses the crowd before publicly signing HB7, &quot;individual freedom,&quot; also dubbed the &quot;stop woke&quot; bill during a news conference at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens, Fla., on Friday, April 22, 2022. DeSantis also signed two other bills into laws including one regarding the &quot;big tech&quot; bill signed last year but set aside due to a court ruling, and the special districts bill, which relates to the Reedy Creek Improvement District. (Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald via AP)

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President Joe Biden speaks to the nation about the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, from the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, as first lady Jill Biden listens. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Minneapolis police stand outside the department's 3rd Precinct on May 27, 2020, in Minneapolis. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP, File)

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President Joe Biden speaks about the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, from the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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In this photo released Dec. 31, 2021, by Xinhua News Agency, an undated photo shows a carrier-based J-15 fighter jet preparing to land on the Chinese navy's Liaoning aircraft carrier during open-sea combat training. China is holding military exercises in the disputed South China Sea coinciding with U.S. President Joe Biden's visits to South Korea and Japan that are largely focused on countering the perceived threat from China. (Hu Shanmin/Xinhua via AP) ** FILE **

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President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the Kenosha Regional Airport on Nov. 2, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. All of the $2.3 million stolen from the Wisconsin Republican Party by hackers just before the 2020 presidential election has been recovered, including nearly $600,000 obtained by the FBI and deposited back to the party last month, the state party chairman said Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The money had been taken from the account they were using to help reelect then-President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

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In this Aug. 3, 2020, file photo, dark clouds and heavy rain sweep over the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Congressional Democrats and the White House are rushing to discredit a forthcoming Congressional Budget Office report that will detail the cost of President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar social welfare bill and the revenue collection proposals to fund it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Democrat Beto O'Rourke, who is running against Greg Abbott for governor in 2022, interrupts a news conference headed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in Uvalde, Texas Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

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An injured man is transported to a hospital after a bombing in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. A series of explosions shook Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Taliban said, including a blast inside a mosque in the capital of Kabul that killed at least five worshippers and three bombings of minivans in the country's north that killed nine passengers. (AP Photo/Masih Paeiz)

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In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with the country's top officials in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. On May 25, President Biden's special envoy for Iran told the Senate that the prospects for returning to the Obama-era deal meant to curb Iran’s nuclear program are "tenuous at best." (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP) **FILE**

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FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is seen on a screen as addresses the audience from Kyiv during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, May 23, 2022. Ukraine's president said Wednesday, May 25, 2022 that Russia must pull back to its pre-war positions as a first step before diplomatic talks, a negotiating line that Moscow is unlikely to agree to anytime soon. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

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Nazia 30, who has lost four children due to severe malnutrition, holds her malnourished baby in a hospital in Parwan province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Some 1.1 million Afghan children under the age of five will face malnutrition by the end of the year. , as hospitals wards are already packed with sick children . (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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