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  2. GOP inches closer to retaining House majority - AOL

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    Control of the House has yet to be determined, as a number of critical races remain too close to call, leaving lawmakers — and voters — waiting to see which party will hold the majority next ...

  3. Republicans Narrowly Keep House Majority, Completing a GOP ...

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    Republicans will retain their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, overcoming the odds after a chaotic two years in power and securing a trifecta in government by seizing control of the ...

  4. The House now belongs to the GOP. Here's what party ... - AOL

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    The House of Representatives will be under GOP rule next year, cementing Republicans' unified control of power across Washington. The party has retained its narrow lower chamber majority after ...

  5. United States House of Representatives - Wikipedia

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    The party with a majority of seats in the House is known as the majority party. The next-largest party is the minority party. The speaker, committee chairs, and some other officials are generally from the majority party; they have counterparts (for instance, the "ranking members" of committees) in the minority party.

  6. Hastert rule - Wikipedia

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    Dennis Hastert explicitly adopted the majority of the majority rule after becoming Speaker of the House.. The Hastert rule, also known as the "majority of the majority" rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [1] and limit the power of the minority party to bring ...

  7. Republicans keep narrow US House majority as Democrats pick ...

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a slim 220-215 majority when the next Congress gets underway next month after Democrats picked up a seat in ...

  8. Government trifecta - Wikipedia

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    Control of the Senate, Presidency, and House since 1855: any column where all three sections show the same color is a trifecta.. The term is primarily used in the United States, where the federal government level consists of the president and the Congress with its two chambers, the House and the Senate.

  9. Decision Desk HQ projects Republicans will retain US House ...

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    The smallest House majority is 218. Republicans had already secured a U.S. Senate majority of at least 52-46, Edison Research projected. During his first presidential term in 2017-2021, Trump's ...