Max Boot, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, also pointed out the U.S. Congress' "hysteria and alarmism" on China. "When the two parties agree on an issue, that doesn't necessarily mean they are right. It could mean they are falling prey to a collective delusion," he...
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House of Representatives in 1886. Because of this, a state could not be divided into multiple states, and more than one state could not be combined to form a bigger state unless the states in question and Congress consented to this development. All States Being Equal Fearing that the new st...
President Joe Biden's re-election campaign and Democratic-aligned groups intend to put abortion rights at the center of next year's White House contest. "It's pretty evident, both with research and the elections we held in 2023, that abortion is a winning issue for us," said Danielle Butt...
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...
The chair, vice chair, and vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve Board are appointed to four-year terms by the president from among the board’s existing members. They can be reappointed to these leadership roles as many times as their term limits as board members allow.1 ...
once the idealism of a campaign has crashed into the realities of governing. What seems unusual this time is how popular the president remains even as many of his supporters become uneasy about what he’s actually doing. The apparent paradox may be the byproduct of the very qualities that pu...
Jan. 6: Congress counts the electoral votes. Typically, this process formally certifies a winner. But if no candidate wins a majority of electors, the House votes to determine who becomes president. This procedure is laid out in the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Each st...
2024's 10 Best-Performing Stocks The best-performing stocks of the year aren't household names, but they show what's hot in the market. Wayne DugganJan. 2, 2025 10 Best-Performing ETFs of 2024 These funds all trounced the returns of the S&P 500 in 2024. ...
Vacancies in the House can take as long as six months to fill, because representatives can only be replaced through a special election. Members of Congress; senators, and representatives, usually leave office before the end of their terms for one of five reasons: death, resignation, retirement,...