Reports on the US House of Representatives' approval of a bill designed to permit prayer in Florida schools. Passage of the legislation despite a dispute between black and Jewish legislators over the issue; Critics' warning about possible lawsuits from parents, civil rights and religious groups in...
The bill also will enable the Corps to move forward with 160 feasibility studies, including a $314mn resiliency study of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which connects ports along the Gulf of Mexico from St Marks, Florida, to Brownsville, Texas. Water project authorization bills typically are pas...
In the House of Representatives, Republicans lead the Democrats, 205 to 189, respectively, and look likely to command a majority, though the precise outcome has yet to be determined. Harris called Trump on Wednesday to concede the 2024 US presidential race...
But the divides that we have come to perpetuate again in the 2016 Presidential election may suggest that the divides were less starkly drawn between red and blue district than Daily Kos Elections calculations suggest, which shows the dissonance between the map of congressional districts were poor v...
Texas has 40, Florida has 30, New York has 28 and so on. The winner is the candidate who gets 270 or more electoral votes. If no candidate gets to 270 electoral votes, the House of Representatives picks the winner from among the candidates who got electoral vo...
Meanwhile, Ryan Mackenzie, a member of the state House of Representatives, beat Wild in a district around Allentown. Both districts hold narrow Democratic registration advantages, but Republicans have helped fund challengers to Cartwright and Wild for years in hopes of beating them. ...
Trump claims credit for saving Kentucky car plant from Mexico move Mike Pence arrives at the threshold of power House of Representatives Democratic193 Republican239 218 districts Senate Democratic46 Republican51 50 seats Independents hold 2 seats...
. If anything,the Electoral College is virtually a concession to the original “Virginia Plan”, which would have apportioned electors the same as the House of Representatives. The alternate “New Jersey” plan was one state, ONE vote…so the E.C. is a compromise of them both, but ...
New York Democrats sought to avoid a repeat of their losses in the last election cycle by rebooting the party’s campaign apparatus and beefing up staffing in the battleground districts to do more voter outreach. Democratic national political groups also devoted more resources t...
Joe Biden has urged the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives to bring a sweeping $95bn national security bill that includes some $60bn of military aid for Ukraine to a vote “immediately”. The bill passed the Senate early on Tuesday. But the measure, which also includes bil...