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 Stewart, Republican of Utah, resigned in September. Both seats will be...
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FARA UNIT’S EARS ARE BURNING: Letters are flying on the Hill this week with accusations of potential illicit foreign influence campaigns, in the latest signals of FARA’s continued potency around town. — Earlier today, new House Select Committee on China Chair John M...
3 effectively closed Congress for business. Washington will wake up on Tuesday to 21 days of a speaker-less House, which has lopped off half the legislative branch while two wars rage overseas and the lower chamber's GOP implodes. “We're a party that can’t govern. It's really and ...
congress, when Republicans'razor-thin margin means they can only afford to lose a handful of votes.)As a result, in recent years, the majority party in the House has been significantly more unified than the minority party, regardless of which party that is and whether they are in the sam...
A top House Republican lawmaker is eyeing the opportunities and risks of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) technology into the day-to-day operations of the U.S. Congress. "I think of this as a tool in a toolkit that’s made Congress more efficient and more responsive. And with any...
All told, Republicans stand to pick up three to four seats in North Carolina, while Democrats look positioned to grab at least two across Alabama and Louisiana, plus potentially more from New York. Given the tight margins in the current Congress, control of the House ...
Ocasio-Cortez has been one of the most critical voices in Congress of the Biden administration’s policy on Israel-Palestine and has called for greater restrictions on military aid to Israel. But she and other progressives have also been in dialogue with the administration on its policy, which...
For example, many Democrats have signed onto the Social Security 2100 Act, which proposes increasing taxes on high earners. Additionally, some Republicans, including former Reps. Paul Ryan and Sam Johnson, have previously proposed reducing benefits for middle- and high-earners. Both approaches ...
The projection in Nevada has put Democrats at 50 seats, which ensures them a majority at the start of the 118th Congress in January thanks to Vice President Harris’s tie-breaking vote. With that projection, two Senate seats remain up in the air: Georgia, where there’s a runoff on Dec...