Opinion. Discusses that most US citizens feel the personality of Congress has little in common with the average American, and offers some examples for a more representative Congress. A study by the author of a sampling of public sentiment through a nationwide survey on radio talk shows; The ...
In fact we have far too few representatives, especially in Congress. When the country was started we had 65 seats for 2.4 million free people (plus 600K unrepresented slaves), 37 thousand constituents per representative. When the House ruled to freeze its size ...
In the mid-1850s, however, the state legislature selection process began to fail due to political infighting and corruption. Which is the most powerful position in the Senate? The majority leader serves as the chief representative of their party in the Senate, and is considered the most ...
Tax breaks were a big issue on the campaign trail, and Congress will be focusing on ways to cut taxes and prevent tax increases that are currently scheduled to take effect in 2026. Kimberly LankfordJan. 8, 2025 Yays and Nays at the Dollar Store ...
checks had been withheld for the past two years. A former school cafeteria worker, she started receiving benefits in 2014. But four years later, she and her husband Glenn were asked to come to the local Social Security office in Virginia Beach, Virginia to speak ...
Like we've donemany timesbefore, 538 decided to aggregate these positions to see how often each member of Congress voted with or against Biden on these key votes. On the whole, the data painted a picture of deep partisan divides in Congress, with the outcomes of most votes hewing closely...
In 2016, this blueprint integrated the concept of AI in the 13th Five-Year Plan. Following this, in 2017, the State Council unveiled the New-Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan. The report of the 19th National Congress accentuated the fusion of AI with the tangible economy to ...
Just one secretary of state candidate who fully denied the results of the 2020 election won his race — Chuck Gray in Wyoming, who called the 2020 election “clearly rigged.” At the same time, more than 100 members of Congress who refused to accept the results of the last national ...
This has the added advantage of tackling the issue of representative weights (i.e., using a single set of weights), which has been criticized as it implies these weights are valid for a whole population, which is not true in most cases [73]. Uncertain, as well as multiple sets of ...
The first tariffs imposed in 2018 were on solar panels and washing machines. Robert Lighthizer, the then-U.S. Trade Representative, announced that after consulting with the Trade Policy Committee and the U.S. International Trade Commission, Trump decided that “increased foreign imports of washers...