some quiet voices have begun asking for a return to the practice. They argue that Congress works because representatives can satisfy their responsibilities to their constituents by making deals. The earmarks are those deals. By taking them away, Congress ...
Johnson, despite the slimmest of majorities, has insisted Republicans will stay unified and on track to deliver on his goal of House passage of the legislation by April. The chair of the House Budget Committee, Texas Rep. Jodey Arrington, returned from the meeting ...
Whether the present tenuous majorities in both houses of Congress will continue in 2022 and beyond is the big question! Share this: The House Select Committee on the January 6 US Capitol Insurrection has been greatly improved by the announcement of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that Illinois...
The amendment, if passed by two-thirds majorities in both chambers of Congress and three-quarters of state legislatures, would limit House members to six two-year terms and senators to two six-year terms. During the early 1990s, voters in two dozen states used initiatives or referendum...
Civil rights leaders worry the maps could diminish minority representation on Capitol Hill. The issue is especially contentious this year, when Democrats — traditionally favored by minority voters — are fighting to hang on to slim majorities in Congress in midterms that tend to reward the party ...
Many economists peg the collapse in fuel prices last year to a lack of demand amid the worldwide economic downturn sparked by thecoronaviruspandemic, the worst pandemic to afflict the globe in a century. And they point to increased demand as the COVID crisis recedes for fueling the current ...
The public's view of the economy was overwhelmingly negative: at the start of the election year, 79 percent of Americans had rated the economy as "fairly bad" or "very bad," and 68 percent continued to do so in October. (3) And throughout the year, large majorities identified the ...
With a slim Democratic majority in the House, Republicans have pointed to the legislative majorities they have in states that'll add seats, as a key to flipping the chamber. Monday's apportionment count did not include as many added seats in Arizona, Texas and Florida, or the loss of seats...
measure meant to get new maps to pass with bipartisan support — except it, too, was fundamentally flawed, since if the party in power had a legislative supermajority, no opposition-party votes would be required. And right now, New York Democrats do indeed have supermajorities in...
With low-single-digit majorities in both chambers, Trump and GOP congressional leaders face a grinding fight to get any legislation passed, let alone a party-line bill of the scale they are now proposing. The president beseeched the gathered Republicans to “make life easy” and fall in line...