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...A vacancy opened up on Tuesday for the world’s most thankless job: Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives....
...Members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of rightwing Republicans, have repeatedly said they will not support any compromise, and Chip Roy, the congressman from Texas, on Wednesday encouraged fellow...
...The Republicans are expected to win back control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate in the upcoming elections. So, is American politics about to take a sharp turn right?...
...House of Representatives from the US Virgin Islands....
...As a first-term congressman from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and attacked what he called the “fog” of Washington....
...In a letter to US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and trade officials, the American Petroleum Institute this month blasted “recent actions . . ....
...But even if he wins the election (and brings the House of Representatives and the Senate with him — and scraps the Senate’s legislative filibuster, too) implementing them will be far from simple....
...With Donald Trump in the White House it feels like a particularly apposite question to ask about American presidents, writes Gideon Rachman....
...A drop of that size would lead to both California and Texas each losing a seat in the US House of Representatives, Mr Warshaw predicted, as both states have large Latino and non-citizen populations....
...Representative Joaquin Castro, Democrat of Texas and the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, called Mr Trump a “bigot.”...
...It has long been clear that several states in the conservative South would eventually become winnable for Democrats — especially Texas, with its great influx of Latin Americans, and Georgia, as its capital...
...Stacey Abrams, who would be the first African-American woman to be the governor of Georgia, is locked in a recount in her state. But I think overall, you saw really impressive numbers for women....
...Fourteen out of 60 candidates backed by the Democratic party in the most competitive House of Representatives races across the US are self-identified racial minorities....
...over the House of Representatives....
...In Texas, Trump’s stance has emboldened hard-line conservatives such as Matt Rinaldi, a Republican who represents part of Dallas in the Texas House of Representatives....
...The bill crafted by Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House of Representatives, is a “formula for disaster”, said Louie Gohmert, a conservative lawmaker from Texas....
...Americans are not merely electing a president. They will also vote for 34 of the US Senate’s 100 seats and for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives....
...This is shoving something down the American people’s throats,” Representative Mick Mulvaney, one of the founders of the Freedom Caucus, said ahead of Monday’s vote....
...Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, this week said the US “cannot let terrorists take advantage of our compassion”, just before the chamber passed a bill, with the help of...
...The name of his game, already evident in all the earlier Whitewater et al investigations which he encouraged, was to delegitimise Mr Clinton....
...Millions of low-income Americans will not have access to health insurance through the new law because many Republican states have not signed up to the expansion of the Medicaid programme designed to accommodate...
...The House of Representatives did get it done on Sunday evening, but only after hours of depressing, monochromatic debate in the chamber and even uglier scenes outside it demonstrated how limited, coarse...
...And when you said in the House of Representatives that you were going to tackle earmarks – in fact, you didn’t want to have any earmarks in any of your bills – I jumped up out of my seat and applauded you...
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...But it can also deliver corrosive ones, such as in 2000 when the “hanging chads” and “butterfly ballots” of Florida conspired to deny Al Gore the White House....
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