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Henry Clay was born in Virginia but represented the state of Kentucky for most of his political career. He served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, holding these positions at several different points in his life....
Congress passed a law called the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act that forbids the import of products made by North Korean labor. Yet as many as 80,000 North Korean workers are currently employed in factories in northeastern...
When the 118th Congress is seated next month, there will be 51 Democrats or senators who caucus with Democrats and 49 Republicans in the upper chamber, and 222 Republicans and 212 Democrats in the lower chamber. Given all the factors of this midterm’s electoral environment — an unpopular De...
Tim Scott is the first to serve in both chambers of Congress and is one of the very few African-Americans to serve in the US Senate. He is the seventh African-American in the Senate and the fourth from the Republican Party. Tim Scott is also the first African-American senator from South...
Congress.Congress is in charge of creating laws and is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The legislative branch is big: there are 100 members of the Senate, called Senators, and 435 members of the House of Representatives, called U.S. Representatives or Congresspersons....
Some senators will attempt to provoke her or, worse yet, malign her, for that is standard operating procedure in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Almost everyone will wonder what she will do on the court, with predictions of doom and gloom the loudest. Everyone forgets that justices can ...
How can a group of senators get around the cloture? How can enforcement of rulings limit judicial power? How does the judicial branch interpret laws? How are judicial activism and judicial restraint similar? How is the legal system organized in the United States?
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in the 10th District in suburban Detroit. Trump would have won the new 10th District, which is rooted in Macomb County, by just 1 point. Republican John James – who lost two recent bids for US Senate in the Wolverine State – is a strong fundraiser and well positioned to win this race...