If the legislation under debate would change the Senate’s standing rules, cloture may beinvokedonly on a vote of two-thirds of those present. There is a less elaborate structure of party control in the Senate; the position taken by influential senators may be more significant than the positio...
Massachusetts sends 9 representatives and 2 senators to the U.S. Congress and has 11 electoral votes. The state is predominantly Democratic, but from 1991-2007 Republicans held the governor's chair. Massachusetts is historically the capital of American higher education. Besides Harvard and the ...
Pennsylvania sends 2 senators and 18 representatives to the U.S. Congress and has 20 electoral votes. The state has voted both Democratic and Republican in both local and national races. Among the state's many universities and colleges are Bryn Mawr College, at Bryn Mawr; Bucknell Univ., at...
making it increasingly difficult to regulate guns and perform interstate enforcement. Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control group, compared gun policies across the country, rating every state on the strength of its gun
In December 2023 the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s name should not appear on the state’s Republican primary ballot because Trump had disqualified himself from holding the office of president of the United States under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868), which prohibits any...
United States 363 United States AR South Korea Samsung 363 Why All Phones Might Soon Require USB-C In The United States Slashgear JUNE 17, 2022 Now that the EU has plans to require all phones to use USB-C by 2024, several senators have urged action on similar legislation here in the Uni...
In Feb 2023, GOP senators and reps. introduce bill to cut UNRWA funding, blasting it for 'rampant history' of ties to antisemitism and terrorism. “ The United Nations Relief and Works Agency Accountability and Transparency Act seeks to end the use of American taxpayer dollars flowing to ...
Congress is divided into two houses, theSenateand theHouse of Representatives. The Senate gives equal weight for each state, with each state electing 2 senators who serve 6 year terms. The House is proportioned based uponpopulation, with each House member serving a 2-year term. The House and...
include calling for impeachment and levying taxes. The Senate is made up of two members from each state. They were originally elected by state legislatures, and had to be thirty years of age. Senators serve six-year terms and have powers, such as trying and removing an impeached president...
The party adopted a platform calling for free coinage of silver, abolition of national banks, a subtreasury scheme or some similar system, a graduated income tax, plenty of paper money, government ownership of all forms of transportation and communication, election of Senators by direct vote of ...