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 ...

Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who has been battling cancer, missed the vast majority of votes in 2025 and has been absent since the first day of the new Congress. Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on the rise of collective giving groups, where you don't need a huge bank account to watch ...

Quorum shall be set at two-thirds of all delegates present on the first roll call vote each day. A simple majority shall consist of one-half plus 1 of all delegates present. A two-thirds majority must ...

Some striking Providence nurses appeared unwilling to accept the tentative labor agreement reached with the health system this week, raising the possibility that the largest health care strike in ...

That Thursday night, Tillis told Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.), who was less than a month into his new role, that there were enough votes to defeat Hegseth.

The Senate is poised to vote on whether to confirm Russell Vought to a top administration role after Democrats held a rare overnight session to oppose his nomination. Vought was tapped by ...