When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare majority, 218 votes, to pass a bill. In practical terms, a majority party needs well over 218 seats to ...

Methods for tallying votes to determine a primary election's outcome include plurality counts and majority counts. Forty-one states require that a candidate receive a plurality of all votes cast in ...

Trump took the oath of office, Charlie Kirk was sitting in the Capitol Rotunda when he glanced down at his iPhone. What the ...

Note: Confirmation requires a simple majority of voting senators. The most contentious vote has been on the confirmation of Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host, for defense secretary. Three ...

AAP leaders said that the party has always fared better than exit poll predictions, after most exit polls predicted BJP win ...

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to serve as director of national intelligence, cleared a procedural vote Tuesday ... ability to garner the majority vote she needs ...

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Edward Coristine is getting a stunning level of access to the federal government as one of Elon Musk’s DOGE cronies. He was ...

Rep. Lisa McClain helps shape Republican messaging in the Trump era — and she’s eager to defend his “out-of-the-box thinking.