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...Centrist opposition legislators on Thursday mostly voted with the left-leaning Peronist opposition movement, which holds 45 per cent of senate seats....
...His La Libertad Avanza coalition (LLA) controls less than 10 per cent of Senate seats and was unable to win over centrist opposition legislators, many of whom on Thursday voted with the left-leaning Peronist...
...McConnell, who was first elected to the Senate in 1984, has long been seen as a shrewd legislator who for decades commanded the unwavering support of his allies....
...Moreno defeated Matt Dolan, a more moderate state legislator who had received the endorsement of Mike DeWine, the state’s popular Republican governor who has at times been a pointed critic of Trump, as well...
...A weak president also allows Congress to rewrite the constitution: this year, lawmakers have recreated the senate and allowed legislators to seek immediate re-election, thumbing their noses at referendum...
...Last week, Milei’s vice-president and Senate leader Victoria Villarruel and lower house leader Martín Menem approved a 30 per cent pay increase for legislators....
...A day before Biden’s speech, the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, endorsed Trump for the presidency....
...Ken Buck, one of many Republican legislators to have recently quit politics in despair, calls Greene “Moscow Marjorie”....
...Centre-left senator Kattya González, an outspoken critic of politicians’ ties to organised crime, was expelled from the senate last month....
...Congress is holding a final debate this week on reforms that would re-establish a senate in the Peruvian parliament after three decades of a unicameral system imposed by Alberto Fujimori, the authoritarian...
...The median age in the US Senate is 65, which is the birthday at which American airline pilots must retire. The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, is 73. Its minority leader, Mitch McConnell, is 81....
...It was no small feat for the little-known legislator from Louisiana, after weeks of infighting that started with Kevin McCarthy’s ousting and exposed deep fissures in the party....
...Villarruel closed her first senate session in mid-December with a barb directed at left-leaning Peronist legislators, whom she accuses of cronyism....
...Obedient to their master, Senate Republicans failed to pass the bill. But the Senate did in the end pass one that would give assistance to Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel and the civilians of Gaza....
...Among the most controversial measures for legislators would be the relaxation of labour and healthcare regulations, she said....
...Together, LLA and its loose ally, the rightwing PRO, hold just 75 of 257 seats in the lower house and 13 of 72 in the senate....
...The decree, however, will remain in place unless both the lower house and senate vote against it....
...Legislators in both the House and the Senate hope to clinch a compromise agreement on new budget measures by November 17 so they can avoid a government shutdown....
...In the US, however, the median age of both the Senate and House has generally increased since the start of the century....
...But Milei, a first-term legislator with no executive experience, is far short of a majority in congress....
..., attended the ceremony in her capacity as president of the senate....
...But political observers say Brown, chair of the powerful Senate banking committee, faces a battle to retain his seat in November....
...LLA holds just 15 per cent of seats in the lower house and 10 per cent of the senate....
...External experts must of course also be involved, to ensure the boffins do not hoodwink the legislators. The tech sector will have to be ready to engage....
...While Haley declined to endorse her rival, Trump did get the backing of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell despite years of hostility between the two men....
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