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Democrats won a special election for a House seat in western New York on Tuesday, The Associated Press projected, further shrinking the GOP's narrow majority in the House. Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy defeated Republican town supervisor Gary Dickson in the 26th District, a reliably blue area that includes Buffalo and some of its surrounding suburbs. Democrats will now control 213 seats in the House, compared with 217 for the Republicans. Five seats remain vacant. Kennedy will serve the rest...
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Sen. Eric Brakey, R-Auburn, put forward language that’s modeled after actions taken in Texas, New Hampshire and Georgia.
Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy won the New York special election in the state’s 26th Congressional District to replace former Democratic Rep. Brian Higgins, narrowing the House Republican majority even further ahead of the 2024 election. Kennedy defeated Republican Gary Dickson, a West Seneca supervisor who is an Army and FBI veteran, on Tuesday night. Kennedy has been […]
The House on Friday cleared a key procedural hurdle in passing foreign aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, despite Republican defections.
House Democrats late Thursday helped advance a $95 billion foreign aid package in a rare move that salvaged federal money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and bailed out embattled Speaker Mike Johnson.
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favor of a bill that could lead to the ban of the popular platform TikTok in the country. The post U.S. House of Representatives Approves Bill Forcing TikTok to Sale Amid National Security Concerns first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.
By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy will win the special election for New York’s 26th Congressional District, CNN projects, further narrowing – at least in the short term – Republicans’ paper-thin majority in the US House. Kennedy will succeed fellow Democrat Brian Higgins in the Buffalo-based district after his victory
By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy will win the special election for New York’s 26th Congressional District, CNN projects, further narrowing – at least in the short term – Republicans’ paper-thin majority in the US House. Kennedy will succeed fellow Democrat Brian Higgins in the Buffalo-based district after his victory
By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Democratic state Sen. Tim Kennedy will win the special election for New York’s 26th Congressional District, CNN projects, further narrowing – at least in the short term – Republicans’ paper-thin majority in the US House. Kennedy will succeed fellow Democrat Brian Higgins in the Buffalo-based district after his victory
The Republican-held House has a razor-thin majority of just a few members. After the departure of Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., over the weekend the majority is even smaller. Currently, there are 217 Republicans in the House compared to 213 Democrats. Republicans can only lose one GOP vote to pass legislation along party lines