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The numbers refer to their Senate classes.All class 1 seats were contested in the November 2024 elections.In this Congress, class 1 means their term commenced in the current Congress, requiring re-election in 2030; class 2 means their term ends with this Congress, requiring re-election in 2026; and class 3 means their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 2028.
Along with voting for the president, Election Day also means voting for both chambers of Congress: the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
H.R. 1916: Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act (passed the House, but the Senate took no action) H.R. 1976: To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program. H.R. 1996: SAFE Banking Act of 2021 (passed the House, but the Senate took no action) H.R. 2116: CROWN Act of 2022 (passed the House, but the Senate took no action)
The house may debate and amend the bill; the precise procedures used by the House of Representatives and the Senate differ. A final vote on the bill follows. Once a bill is approved by one house, it is sent to the other, which may pass, reject, or amend it. For the bill to become law, both houses must agree to identical versions of the bill. [6]
This transition date, set by the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ensures that all newly elected members of the House of Representatives and Senate can begin their terms and address key ...
Efforts to get the Senate to vote on a bill to expand ... the bill was passed by the House in a 327-75 vote late Tuesday night, after a last-ditch effort to derail it by members of the ...
Americans are poised to elect a new Congress as every seat in the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate is up before voters on Election Day. Republicans win control of the Senate ...
During most of that period Senate Democrats earned a larger share of Senate seats than their share of the national House vote. Since filibuster rules were revised in 1975, the Democratic Party earned filibuster-proof supermajorities three times after the 1974 , 1976 and 2008 Senate elections.