Senator Susan Collins, a leading moderate Republican in the U.S. Congress, warned on Sunday against intolerance of differences within her party and pushed back at intraparty attacks from the right against Senator Mitt Romney and Representative Liz Cheney.
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It has not occurred since 1980, when Oregon gained a fifth seat in the U.S House of Representatives. However, based on the data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the state will received a sixth congressional seat with the redistricting taking place as a result of the 2020 census.Â
That was confirmed by Ben Williams, policy specialist with the National Conference of State Legislatures, during a joint meeting of the House and Senate Special Committees on redistricting conducted online.
âIt will give Oregon better representation,â said District 15 Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis, co-chairwoman of the House committee
According to Census figures, the U.S. population grew by 7.4% over the 2010 census, and was put at 331,449,281. One of closely watched results of the census is the shifting of U.S. House seats among states. And, of the last three census results, 2020 produced the smallest shift of seats, at seven. After the 2000 census there was a shift of 18 seats and a
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping $1.8 trillion package for families and education in his first speech to Congress on Wednesday and argue that he has restored Americans’ faith in democracy nearly 100 days after he succeeded Donald Trump in office.
Biden will speak at 9 p.m. (0100 GMT Thursday) inside the U.S. Capitol, at an event scaled back this year because of the pandemic. He will use the speech to outline his priorities for the rest of his first year in office and provide a progress report on his record so far.
“Now, after just 100 days, I can report to the nation: America is on the move again, turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity, setback into strength,” Biden will say, according to speech excerpts released by the White House.
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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) departs after House impeachment managers rested their case in impeachment trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump, on charges of inciting the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Thursday started talks on a police reform bill, the morning after Democratic President Joe Biden urged senators and representatives to act before the May 25 anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis policeman.
Republican Senators Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham, Democratic Senators Dick Durbin and Cory Booker and Democratic Representative Karen Bass were among those tasked with reaching a consensus on a policing bill, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and two Democratic legislative aides said.
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Washington (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping $1.8 trillion package for families and education in his first joint speech to Congress on Wednesday, as he stresses the need to invest to compete with China, the White House said.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden holds a bipartisan meeting on the American Jobs Plan at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 19, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Biden will argue that the new package – which together with an earlier infrastructure and jobs plan totals around $4 trillion, rivaling the annual federal budget – is a once-in-a-generation investment vital to America’s future.