Indian Creek Village, the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami, couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines. So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to come to the rescue.

The House passed bills imposing voting and policing policies on the District of Columbia, but the G.O.P. has refused to consider a measure to restore hundreds of millions of dollars of its funding.

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