But unsuccessfully, as the president and vice president of the United States Senate Intelligence Committee called for an “apparent deception” investigation. According to them, “employees in China had full access to information about US users, such as birth dates, phone numbers, and other authenti...
The scale and longevity of the data storage appears to be unmatched by other government programs, including the N.S.A.’s gathering of phone call logs under the Patriot Act. The N.S.A. stores the data for nearly all calls in the United States, including phone numbers and time and durat...
senators, and the House of Representatives (seeRepresentatives, House of), to which members are elected on the basis of population. Among the express powers ofCongressas defined in theConstitutionare the power to lay and collect taxes, borrow money on the credit of the United States, regulate ...
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...
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district: For representatives, the district number they are serving from. At-large districts are district 0. In historical data, unknown district numbers are recorded as -1. class: For senators, their election class (1, 2, or 3). Note that this is unrelated to seniority. ...
As it happens, Missouri has two Republican senators and a half-dozen House members who, to one degree or another, have Trump’s ear or the ears of those around him. Should he go through with this reckless tariff binge, and those members of Congress do nothing to oppose it, let no one...
The state sends two senators and two representatives to the U.S. Congress; it has four electoral votes. Rhode Island is solidly Democratic. The state's leading educational institutions are Brown Univ. and the Rhode Island School of Design, at Providence, and the Univ. of Rhode Island, at ...
In 1784 North Carolina ceded its western lands to the United States, spurring the transmontane people to organize a new, short-lived government (see Franklin, State of). Within the year North Carolina repealed the act ceding the land; however, the cession was reenacted in 1789, and that ...
United States on November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump, and vice president Mike Pence. The election took place against the backdrop of the ...