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WASHINGTON — The House voted 286-134 on Friday to pass a sweeping $1.2 trillion government funding bill, sending it to the Senate just hours before the deadline to prevent a shutdown.. Soon ...
Members of the House serve two-year terms, with all 435 seats up for election every midterm and presidential election year. In contrast, U.S. Senators serve six-year terms, with elections ...
The House and Senate are equal partners in the legislative process—legislation cannot be enacted without the consent of both chambers. 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.
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 ...
No election: House elections; Overall control: Republican hold: Seats contested: All 435 voting-members All 6 non-voting delegates: Popular vote margin: Republican +2.6%: Net seat change: Democratic +2: Map of the 2024 House races Democratic hold Democratic gain Republican hold Republican gain: Gubernatorial elections
The 2022 United States Senate elections were held on November 8, 2022, concurrently with other midterm elections at the federal, state, and local levels. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 34 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate, the winners of which will serve 6-year terms beginning with the 118th United States Congress. 2 special elections were held to complete unexpired terms.
Despite having 62 cosponsors in the Senate, the bill still needs to be brought up for a vote by the chamber's leadership, and soon. The bill "dies December 31, at the end of the second session of ...
H.R. 5: Equality Act of 2021 (passed the House, but the Senate took no action) H.R. 6: American Dream and Promise Act of 2021 (passed the House, but the Senate took no action) H.R. 7: Paycheck Fairness Act of 2021 (Senate failed to invoke cloture on the bill by a vote taken on June 8, 2021) [21]