That year, the GOP took control of the House and Senate -- and Gingrich was named the speaker. Under his speakership, what Fowler called the "Gingrich revolution" happened – "where committee chairs were pretty much brought to heel … and undermined, staff resources were shifted to the par...
While the Senate battleground is pretty well affixed on four seats, and more realistically two seats, the House battleground is likely to shift dramatically and ultimately settle in on a dozen seats. Because of the dominance of HRCC during the Obama years and the Trump wave of 2016, the Repub...
The party breakdown in the Senate is 57 Democrats, 41 Republicans and two independents who caucus with the Democrats. House: All 435 House seats are at stake. A party must win 218 seats to get a majority. The party breakdown in the House is 255 Democrats, 178 Republicans and two vacancie...
FY 2012 Appropriations Markup by Subcommittee Senate Committee Shifts Due to Senator Ensign’s early departure from the Senate and the resulting swearing-in of Dean Heller, here is the new breakdown: Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) will sit on the Commerce, Energy, and Aging Committees; ...
Breakdown Of House Nominations: 2016 Federal Election June 10, 2016 Nominations – House of Representatives & Senate 2016 June 10, 2016 Election Nominations: Three MPs Who Blundered Their Way Out Of Parliament June 9, 2016 Fact Checking Mr. Windsor: Only One Majority Parliament In The First 20...
The legislative breakdown comes months after a similar process to reform and reauthorize the surveillance program fell apart before it even reached the House floor. Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican of Louisiana, has called the program "critically important" but has struggled to find a path forward...
SENATE GOP LACKING DATA The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies pursued their own data by contacting and recontacting staffers directly to collect, confirm or correct information for the report. While Senate Democrats have conducted their own self-reported diversity studies for the last ...
While Trump still counts many allies in Congress, he has some notable foes in the Senate, where a number of more moderate Republicans have bucked him over the years. During his second impeachment trial, seven Senate Republicans crossed party lines and voted to convict him. ...
“The GOP will grow our House majority, we will take back the Senate and we will return Donald J. Trump to the White House,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said. “Standing arm in arm, we will make America safe again.” House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) in his speech...
“I don’t think we will have a need for party discipline and I expect everybody to be working on singing from the same sheet of music,” Johnson told POLITICO.