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One red paperclip is a website created by Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald, who traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year. [ 1] MacDonald was inspired by the childhood game Bigger, Better. His site received a considerable amount of notice for tracking the transactions.
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they comprise the national bicameral legislature of the United States. [ 1][ 2] The House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills; those that are also passed by the Senate ...
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of July 19, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
The U.S. Secret Service faced an array of challenges -- and made some potentially dangerous mistakes -- while trying to protect the president, vice president and vice president-elect on Jan. 6 ...
Lost in the shuffle of a historic news cycle is the House GOP’s face plant on a series of spending bill over the last few weeks that leaves them in a very similar posture to last summer when ...
The Democratic House campaign arm saw its highest number of doors knocked in a single week this cycle and had a 58% increase in volunteers during the week to mark 100 days until the November election.
Congressional archives consist of records and personal papers that document the history and activities of the United States Congress.The National Archives and Records Administration’s Center for Legislative Archives collects and preserves the official administrative and legislative records of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
t. e. The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section II, of the U.S. Constitution. [ a] By custom and House rules, the speaker is the political and parliamentary ...