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...Meeting regularly for sandwiches and beers at Soho House, a members’ club in Manhattan and his de facto office, we debated and wagered on the outcome of many contests — football games, macroeconomic data...
...He has denied all of the allegations. Texas Democrats were set for a longer wait to find out who their candidate for the state’s 28th congressional district would be....
...For now, members of Biden’s party are laser focused on the Democratic primary in Texas’s 28th congressional district, where Cisneros, an immigration lawyer and political novice, is trying to do what Ocasio-Cortez...
...In my judgment this is an unconditional surrender to the Taliban,” said Michael McCaul, the Texas Republican who is the party’s top member of the foreign affairs committee in the House of Representatives...
...and argued the former president “at all times . . . fully and faithfully executed his duties as president of the United States”....
...in the Texas House of Representatives — the lower house of the state legislature....
...At the dais in the chamber of the Senate where Daniel Webster used a two-day speech to win the argument for a tightly-bound United States, where Jefferson Davis bid farewell to the union and future presidents...
...The Senate was meant, in George Washington’s words, to play saucer to the House of Representatives’ hot tea. It was where public passions would cool off....
...His name is Michael Moore,” Clyburn says. The film-maker and longtime Sanders supporter claimed after Biden’s victory in South Carolina that the state was “not representative” of the United States....
...Sylvia Garcia Another first-term member of Congress, Ms Garcia is a member of the House judiciary committee and a former member of the Texas state senate. What role will the chief justice play?...
...The only person to go straight from the House of Representatives to the White House was James Garfield, who was assassinated six months after taking office in 1881....
...each congressional district....
...In the House of Representatives, the bipartisan “drone caucus” has 50 members and describes its goal as pushing “further development and acquisition of more systems”....
...Members of Congress have largely lost any incentive to compromise, as more and more shelter in districts with their boundaries redrawn to make them safe; and the post-crisis era of tepid growth means there...
...The issue could raise thorny questions for Republicans in the House and Senate, many of whom could see federal funding for disaster relief cut off in their home districts and states if a looming budget shortfall...
...Mr Obama called congressional leaders and also the families of some of the victims, leading a concerted effort by political leaders to maintain calm in the wake of the incident....
...“I had no prior knowledge of the drilling of this well, none whatsoever,” Mr Hayward told Michael Burgess, a Republican from Texas....
...It was as good an exhibit as any of the Tea Party anger that has set the tone for this year’s midterm congressional campaign....
...Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Friday added her voice to calls for super-delegates to vote in line with the popular vote....
...He is chairman of the powerful ways and means committee in the House of Representatives and he is dean of the New York state congressional delegation....
...The larger states, such as New York, California and Texas, hold simultaneous primary elections a month later in what is now known as “Tsunami Tuesday”....
...The system, which allocates each state a number of electoral college votes (by adding its population-based congressional districts to the uniform two Senate seats awarded to each state), was devised when...
...Democrats picked up the 15 extra seats they needed to win a majority in the House of Representatives and won four out of six seats needed to regain control of the Senate....
...Then, last week, America’s late-night comedians got another windfall when staff of Dennis Hastert, Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, described as merely “over-friendly” the lewd e-mails...
...Republicans in Texas make no bones about it: after they took control of the state legislature in 2002 they redrew the districts from which members of Congress are elected to ensure more Republicans would...
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