By Ashe N Ayers If you don’t know US politics much – know this for sure – a US President is decided by a nine or 10 battleground states and the campaign managers have to take into the demographics of these states to assess their chances of victory to
As a first step, the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress should begin to includecitizenship(along with the current listings of party breakdown, age, occupations, education, Congressional service, religion, gender, ethnicity and military service) in its published profiles of each ...
More than two-thirds of the veterans set to serve are Republicans. There are 16 newcomers: two senators (Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly and Kansas Republican Roger Marshall) and 14 House members (12 of whom are Republicans). But those additions didn’t fully ...
Graphics by Jasmine Mithani More women will serve in the 117th Congress than ever before: At least 142 will take their seats in the next Congress, according to …
(Twenty-three-year congressional veteran Frelinghuysen is descended from a family once ranked the seventh-most-powerful American political dynasty: His father was a congressman, his great-great-grandfather and great-great-great-uncle were senators; his great-great-great-great-grandfather — also a ...
Jackson was contested by incumbent senators and former governors which led to Walter Mondale representing the Democratic Party instead. Mondale’s downfall started when he stated that he would raise taxes. The Democrats waited for Reagan to make a mistake, but he never did. More controversy was...
Senators are elected without political party affiliation. The commission's rulings are final without right of appeal. The National Counter-Corruption Commission reviews the financial public disclosure of assets from elected politicians. Any errors or omissions allow the commission to ban the offender ...
The group of senators, Bob Menendez and Cory Booker of New Jersey, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Kamala Harris of California, signed letters addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Vice President Mike Pence. ...
28 runs were scored by Heinie Manush, 1933 Senators, during his 33 games hitting streak going 50-for-140 (.357). (Baseball Hitting Streaks) 149) Boston Red Sox catcher Doug Mirabelli (uniform #28) hits a grand slam homer in the 6th inning on July 3, 2004 off Atlanta Braves John ...
“American government is divided into three branches: executive, legislative, and judiciary. While the legislative branch is bicameral, it is of interest that senators are elected for six year terms with a stagger system such that only one third can be changed at one time. In terms of ...