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March 30 – June 10, 1964: The longest filibuster in the history of the Senate was waged against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with 57 days of debate over a 73-day period. It ended when the Senate voted 71–29 to invoke cloture , with the filibuster carried out by southern members of the Democratic Party, the first successful cloture motion ...
A list of mayors still in office and ordered by their length of continuous service in that office. (If there is a break in their service, then this length is measured from their return to the office.) The longest-serving current mayor of one of the 50 largest cities in the United States is Jean Stothert, who has been mayor of Omaha since June ...
Democrat: 1936–2015 First black mayor of New Haven. 1994–2013 John DeStefano, Jr. Democrat: born 1955 New Haven's longest-serving mayor. 2014–2020 Toni Harp: Democrat: born 1949 First woman elected mayor and 2nd African American mayor of New Haven. 2020–present Justin Elicker: Democrat: born 1975
Democrats in the Missouri Senate broke the record for the longest filibuster in the chamber’s history on Wednesday while blocking a vote on a plan to make it harder for voters to amend the state ...
This is a list of mayors of the 50 largest cities in the United States, ordered by their populations as of July 1, 2022, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These 50 cities have a combined population of 49.6 million, or 15% of the national population.
Sen. Chris Murphy filibustered for nearly 15 hours into early Thursday. This marathon was put down as the 9th longest since 1900.
Rice would run for office again and go on to serve as the 4th mayor of the city. For much of the 19th century, mayors of the city of Dallas served for only one term. This precedence was broken at the end of Winship C. Connor 's term, who – after serving three consecutive terms from 1887 to 1894 – would go on to be the city's longest ...
The turnout gap between white voters and nonwhite voters increased from 10% to 12% from 2012 to 2020. In Texas, a photo ID law that was subject to preclearance went into effect immediately after ...