Below are featured stories listed in reverse chronological order that Ramsey reported during his time at Newsweek. A complete list of his bylines can be found here.
Senate Republicans are turned off by Becerra's pro-choice stance on abortion, support for single-payer health care and lack of experience in the medical field.
A Republican lawmaker's growing movement in the House to officially contest the Electoral College certification so far lacks any support among his GOP colleagues in the Senate—at least one of whom are needed to advance the longshot maneuver.
As Senate Republicans characterize Neera Tanden as "radioactive" and urge Biden to withdraw her nomination for head of the White House budget office, key GOP lawmakers signal they might not even hold confirmation hearings for her, much less confirm her.
Biden has assembled a desired Cabinet of former Obama officials and career professionals, nominees who the president-elect feels will be able to satisfy the liberal wing of the party while not alienating Senate Republicans.
Moderate Democrats wince at the way their leadership handled stimulus negotiations before the election. But there's renewed hope from a bipartisan group of lawmakers that relief may come in the new year.
Former Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Byrne claims he lost his job because he didn't back an attempt by his boss, Robert Wilkie, to discredit a Navy veteran whose sexual assault allegations he felt were a political plot against him.
With a slim majority in the House next year, Congress' most liberal current and incoming lawmakers flexed their newfound power and issued a warning shot to the president-elect.
Mingling on the Senate floor during a vote, at least five Republicans extended what looked like congratulating remarks to the vice president-elect, despite most GOP lawmakers still siding with President Trump's refusal to concede.
Republicans say that Biden should begin receiving more classified intelligence briefings as if he were president-elect. But they also maintain he is not the winner, pending ongoing litigation from the Trump campaign.
GOP lawmakers are saying the Trump campaign either needs to show evidence of their voter fraud claims in court or accept the results, which appeared on track Friday night to award the presidency to Joe Biden.
"I've always considered myself the unofficial chairman of the Congressional Swifty Caucus," Swalwell told Newsweek. Swift allowed her popular song 'Only the Young' to overlay this pro-Biden campaign video.
The swift outcast of the ex-DHS official from the left and right was reminiscent of the saga that unfolded when excerpts from Bolton's tell-all book were revealed months after Trump was acquitted of impeachment.
Republican Rep. Doug Collins, who is challenging incumbent GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler in Georgia, violated DoD policy at least two dozen times alone during the week prior by using images of himself donning his Air Force uniform in campaign ads posted to social media.
In the weeks before and after the Montana Republican threw his weight behind the proposal, he received a total of $18,500 from seven different Big Pharma political action committees.
