Scott Colom’s victory in Mississippi is even more historic than it might first appear.

He’s not the first Black senator from Mississippi. Two Black men — Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce — represented the state during Reconstruction, more than 150 years ago.

— Democratic strategist Morris Katz, speaking at a conference.

“With government funding set to expire Dec. 11, some Democrats want to deny support for the next stopgap funding bill unless it bars the administration from spending federal dollars on military operations against Iran.”

“In the 25 years since 2000, the party controlling the White House and/or at least one chamber of Congress changed in all but two U.S. elections.”

“It is an unprecedented period of political turnover in which voters have pulled the lever for some kind of change — either picking a president from a new party or flipping the majority in the House or Senate — nearly every time they’re given the chance in recent years.”

“The Interior Department’s four-year strategic plan released on Wednesday didn’t specify how much land it plans to sell or how the land would be priced. The department, which manages some 480 million acres, didn’t immediately respond to a request for more details.”

“However, they are finding the road and the timetable treacherous. Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicated that he still is not sure whether the party has the votes to advance a single-party measure of any kind, despite hopes that they could be unlocked postelection.”

“Republicans say Democrats simply neglected to ask for a roll-call vote, allowing the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act to immediately move to the Senate.”

“But a top Democrat accused GOP leaders of ‘trickery’ in passing the bill, which had previously been pulled from the floor back in July due to bipartisan opposition.”

“Recent reports that the Commerce Department failed to take action on Megaspeed, the Singapore-based firm at the center of the spying and chip-smuggling allegations, have intensified scrutiny of the agency’s decisions to allow more foreign chip sales, particularly of Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence chips.”

“Over the past 24 hours, more than half a dozen Republicans have demanded answers — and potentially congressional testimony – from Lutnick and top deputies over whether they put private tech interests above national security.”

Said a source close to President Trump: “Hegseth is now a passenger in whatever comes next. And all the outcomes are potentially damaging.”

“House Democratic aides tell Inner Loop that Democrats are likely to pursue an impeachment inquiry against Hegseth, and also work to narrow the charges against him to issues that Senate Republicans have also complained about, in an effort to attract their support.”

Colom, 43, also will become the first Black person elected to statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era. His win in a Republican stronghold underscores the grim environment the GOP faced in the midterms, as voters grappled with a war overseas and high prices at home, and further expands Democrats’ incoming Senate majority.”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), quoted by The Wrap.

Said Omar: “I would love to. That is my favorite committee. … I’m thinking of Approps and other committees, so we’ll see how it all shakes out.”

“There’s one name that keeps coming up: Democratic Rep. Kelly Morrison, who just won her second term to the House and served in the state legislature before that.”

“Paul currently chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, but his seniority on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee allows him to transition to be the panel’s ranking member.”

“The warship, which the Navy has since said would be the most expensive in its fleet, is one of the Democrats’ prime targets in Trump’s historic $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request. Democrats, fresh off sweeping wins in last week’s midterm elections, are taking aim at the president’s pet projects amid an unpopular war with Iran and high prices at home.”

“For nearly two decades, judges across the country have invoked this language to strike down gun-control laws. It is a pivotal legal test.”

“It is also based on a misquote.”

“For years, Russia has sought a European security deal that limits NATO expansion and scales back its military presence in Eastern Europe. The U.S. has rejected those demands in the past, but now appears open to them in some form as part of a broader agreement to end the war in Ukraine.”