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Roughly 1,000 government positions require Senate confirmation through a majority vote in the 100-seat chamber. Most of Trump's Cabinet picks easily won confirmation during his first 2017-2021 ...
The 117th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It convened in Washington, D.C. , on January 3, 2021, during the final weeks of Donald Trump's presidency and the first two years of Joe Biden's ...
Sen. Susan Collins perhaps has more reason to oppose Trump's nominations than any other Republican senator. For one, she's up for reelection in 2026 in Maine, a Democratic-leaning state that ...
Senator Amy Klobuchar speaks on the Act from inside the Capitol Building. The Freedom to Vote Act (formerly known as the For the People Act), [1] introduced as H.R. 1, [2] is a bill in the United States Congress [3] intended to expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, ban partisan gerrymandering, and create new ethics rules for federal ...
Senate Bill 2271, introduced by Republican senator Robert Erbele and passed 43-3 (Republicans hold a 40-vote majority in the Senate), would withhold the state's vote count from the public until after votes in the Electoral College have been cast; the measure is intended to prevent the implementation of the National Popular Vote Interstate ...
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans have elected Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., as the next Senate majority leader after rejecting public overtures from allies of President-elect Donald Trump who backed a ...
Trump won't get a vote in this secret-ballot race, but his influence over it is palpable. Many Republicans see Trump's comfortable victory in Tuesday's elections coupled with Senate Republicans ...
As part of the 2020 United States Senate elections, Georgia held run-off elections for both of its Senate seats on January 5, 2021. The run-off elections were triggered because of a Georgia law requiring a second round when no individual wins a majority of the vote in most federal, state, and local elections.