SPECIAL ELECTION FOR GOVERNOR: ; Party nominees chosen today; Candidates for chief executive make last-minute campaign stopsAlison Knezevich
Schools that fail to reach “certain thresholds in the performance measures . . . should not receive the portion of general appropriations tied to that measure.” The Governor-elect cites a model crafted by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, under which schools are recognized for ...
— After Election Day, states count and certify the results of the popular vote. When completed, each governor is required by law to prepare “as soon as practicable” documents known as “Certificates of Ascertainment” of the vote. The certificates list the electors' names and the numbe...
Reps.Gerry Connolly(D-Va.) andDon Bacon(R-Neb.), and Sens.Gary Peters(D-Mich.) andJohn Cornyn(R-Texas) top their respective lists of most effective lawmakers during the last Congress, according toa new reportfrom the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL). Connolly earned a 7.142...
Security Council during his first term. Before that, he served as the top lawyer to partisan firebrand Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), a close Trump ally who as House Intelligence Committee chair helped fight allegations the then-president’s campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election...
In fact, hand-counts are only done when the hand-count could change the result of the election. In Florida, Governor Bush is ahead by approximately 1,000 votes out of approximately 6,000,000 votes cast. In other words, Mr. Bush is only ahead by 0.016% . In this situation, an error...
Cruelty of the justice Last Dance is very much a tragic film. Why are some people so spiteful and hateful? The murder committed in this film occurred 12 years ago. That time in prison is punishment enough, but the judge sentenced her to execution. Most people with the governor's office ...
But with more than 1 million votes already cast in Texas, Uvalde families who have been most outspoken since the May 24 attack are facing an uphill climb for bigger shakeups on Election Day, including a change in governor. Abbott, who has waved off calls to tighten Texas gun laws since ...
Migrants didn’t arrive in busloads, as the Texas governor threatened. And though there were some arrests, violence didn’t consume the events of the week. POLITICO asked Mayor Brandon Johnson if he had been worried about how the week might go: “I don’t know what worrying g...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Semiconductor chip supply is unlikely to be enough to completely satisfy demand again until 2024, Volkswagen Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Arno Antlitz said in an interview with German daily Boersen-Zeitung on Saturday. He said that although bottlenecks would ...