How many votes are needed to win the election for House speaker? The magic number is usually 218, a simple majority of the 435 members in the House. In the 118th Congress, however, it's currently 217. This year, David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island, resigned in June, and Chris S...
This time, with so few days to act — and a feeling among Democrats that there is little need to investigate what happened, since most members of Congress heard Trump speak to his supporters and were in the Capitol when the mob broke in — impeachment is going straight to the House floor...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who stood by President Biden over the summer even as many Democrats called for him to step aside, defended his support for the president at a Politico event Monday. “Did I think (Biden) was a great campaigner? No. But I think he was an excellent president,” the...
That monstrous number, whatever it may be exactly, prompts some questions of its own, though. For starters, do we have too many elections and elected offices in this country? Surely jobs like judge and coroner should be appointed positions, but beyond that, do we ...
. The seat is currently held by Republican Rep. Barry Moore, who has decamped to run in the 1st District to give himself a better shot at reelection. And for good reason — the 2nd District iscurrently ratedas one of the most likely pickup opportunities for Democr...
(or not at all**) agreed with him a median of 10 percent of the time. That's likely because the senators who have been around longer hail from a timewhen the Senate was more bipartisanand are often more willing to work with Democrats. Many of the newer GOP Senate recruitsare more ...
He was the producer back in 2012, when I essentially acted as the house band for four days laying the soundtrack to every speaker. But that was very different from this. For that, you could compare me to a one-man-band version of the Academy Awards orchestra that’...
New York will play a key role in determining which party controls the closely divided House next year with a half dozen seats up for grabs.Here are five takeaways from the special election results: BATTLE OF THE SUBURBS: New York Democrats had a Long Island problem. The results on Tuesday...
House Democrats’ powerful Steering and Policy Committee, which handles panel assignments, is expected to start considering contested committee slots in two weeks. The panel will hold secret ballots to recommend leaders to the full caucus, which will then officially vote on who will lead the party...
And Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) could also be in the mix. It’s the latest salvo in House Democrats’ generational battle over the leadership of congressional committees. Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.), the top Democrat on the Agriculture committee — who ...