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spanning early January to December of each year. Congress adjourns at the end of each session; there are two sessions for each sitting of Congress. The Constitution forbids either the Senate or the House to adjourn for more than three days without the permission of the other ...
Many working parents have faced the challenge of finding affordable childcare in the past decades, with the issue being exacerbated further by the pandemic. Parents, especially women, have largely been forced to choose between paying rising childcare rates or temporarily leaving the workforce...
While many Americans struggle to save forretirement, elected representatives and senators in the United States Congress receive substantial pension benefits for life. Though Congressional retirement pay is not typically a big election-year issue, it might serve as evidence of a disconnect between la...
Voters will also elect new members of Congress, the legislative branch of the US government which is made up of two parts: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Each state has two Senators and at least one Representative. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for elect...
In this study, we analyzed floor votes taken in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives during the first session of the 118th Congress, which met in 2023. Of the 352 roll call votes taken in the Senate and 724 taken in the House, this study focused on those votes that Biden...
Without checks and balances, one branch of a government or organization can grow too powerful. In the U.S., three branches of the federal government effectively have a set of checks and balances: the legislative branch as Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate), the Supreme Cou...
The 118th House speaker was elected after four days’chaos and 15 rounds of voting by members of Congress, fully exposing the deep political polarization in the country. Brad Bannon, president of a U.S. political consultancy, put it bluntly, "The impasse in the U.S. House of Repr...