With Republicans clinching control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, the party will need to elect a speaker when the new Congress is sworn in, normally on Jan. 3. WHAT IS THE SPEAKER’S IMPORTANCE? The speaker of the House, second in the line of succession for the presidency after the vice president, leads […]
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U.S. congressman Hakeem Jeffries of New York launched a bid on Friday to become the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. If he succeeds in the Nov. 30 leadership elections, as expected, he would become the first Black party leader in either chamber of Congress. Here is a look at his background and political
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The fight to become Arizona’s next attorney general in November’s midterm elections smashed fundraising records this week. One major reason: the normally backwater contest has potentially big implications for U.S. democracy, election experts said. Arizona is a kingmaker state in U.S. presidential elections, and under Arizona law the attorney general must witness the certification of
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s approval rating stayed close to the lowest level of his presidency this week, a dark sign for his Democratic Party’s prospects in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday found. The two-day national poll found that 40% of Americans approve of Biden’s job
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If Republicans win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections, they expect to use a powerful and potentially dangerous tool as leverage in their dealings with Democratic President Joe Biden: The federal debt ceiling. The U.S. Treasury is expected to reach its mandated $31.4 trillion borrowing limit in
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Here are nine races that could determine which party wins control of the House in November.
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“We do know that we do not have custody of everything we should,” acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall said in a letter to House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.
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The power to declassify documents at will, just by thinking about them. That’s what former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking on Fox News, claims all presidents of the United States can do. “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, it’s declassified, even by thinking about it.” Trump also
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It took the GOP less than three months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade to propose a federal ban.
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Even after fundraising millions off the FBI investigation, Trump wants taxpayers to pay for his legal bills.
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