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Kelly has sided with his party on abortion rights, Medicare and social security, but he says he has also pushed back and criticized President Biden when he feels it's necessary. Of course, elections aren’t won nationally, and in some key contested states, gas prices are still high. Nevada, one of Republicans’ top Senate race targets, has had the second-highest prices in the country for months. Arizona and Pennsylvania, two hotly contested states, are also above the national average. The Justice Department is sending election monitors to the polls in 24 states on Election Day as part of its effort to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws.
Polls are closing now — stand by for race results
The nonpartisan group OpenSecrets projects that more money will be spent on federal elections (House and Senate races) in these midterms than ever before, to the tune of $9.3 billion. That's a massive escalation from recent years — a 32% increase from four years ago and almost double the spending in 2014. In the meantime, voters can slide their ballot into a “secure box” just below the tabulator, he said.
How Every Representative Voted
The bill, which now goes to the Senate, would transform the nation's social safety net despite being whittled down to roughly half its original size amid infighting between the party's moderate and progressive wings. The White House continued to tout the House passage of President Biden’s sweeping Build Back Better Act on Friday, with press secretary Jen Psaki highlighting its provisions as she kicked off the daily briefing. "No," Manchin said when asked if he had made a decision to vote to proceed. "I'm still looking at everything." The comments reflect that Manchin is still not on board with the legislation and signal the tough road ahead for Democrats.
Exit polls offer mixed messages
Golden announced ahead of the final House vote that he would vote against the bill, citing the tax provision. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the only Democrat to vote against the bill and no Republicans voted for it. "I always talk about this being a great country. But the fact that we have not allowed this greatness to be accessible and affordable for all of our citizens, these three pieces of legislation accomplish that in a big way," he said.
Foreign aid funding
“This is actually what the majority of Arizona counties do on Election Day all the time,” County Recorder Stephen Richer said. Hours after the reported problem, a statement was posted on the county's Twitter page saying the issue was resolved. We'll be here blogging the latest developments and analysis all night, and you can tune in to live special radio coverage starting at 8 p.m. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told PBS NewsHour on Tuesday night that she believes Democrats can defy the history books and maintain control of Congress. A handful of exit polls offer conflicting signs, as NPR senior political editor Domenico Montanaro noted in a Twitter thread.
Republicans sue to extend poll hours in Maricopa County, Ariz., after technical issues
The workers are drawn from the agency’s civil rights division and U.S. attorneys’ offices, along with, in some cases, staff from the Office of Personnel Management. Hassan stresses that New Hampshire is a purple state and will be a close race. She has touted her bipartisan record, passing bills to lower prescription drug costs, boost manufacturing jobs, and invest millions in roads, bridges and rail projects. Those ballots will be collected and sent to Maricopa’s “central tabulators,” County Recorder Stephen Richer said. Thousands in the state have voted early already, but both candidates are focused on Election Day turnout. But both need to win over independent and moderate candidates, even in the historically Republican state.
As we headed into the final week of voting, it looked like some of the Democrats' key bases were less enthusiastic about voting than the Republicans' bases, according to an NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll. Snow began falling in western Montana early Monday and was expected to continue to fall in eastern parts of the state through Tuesday night, the NWS office in Billings said. Fetterman is locked in a tight race with celebrity TV show host doctor Mehmet Oz, a Republican who has the support of former President Donald Trump. Even as he’s facing a tough reelection campaign in Arizona, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly is hopeful that he’ll be able to continue working in Congress with his Republican colleagues after today. But the DOJ says its civil rights division has regularly monitored U.S. elections since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was approved.
Hang in there! Polls have closed in half the states
The 26-year-old Democrat, who identifies as bisexual and lives in Concord with his wife and cat, says in his biography that he's never been afraid to stand up for what he believes in. The Senate is a closer contest, and Democrats are still in arm's reach of keeping control. Two of the races that could decide it all are in Pennsylvania and Georgia — where the matchups are incredibly close. In the meantime, coverage continues on the NPR One app or your local NPR member station.
President Biden applauded the House's passage of the Build Back Better Act Friday in a statement released by the White House, calling it a “giant step forward” for his agenda. Pelosi said she is most excited about family medical leave in this legislation. “I think that everybody's determined to make that happen,” she said on CNN. "We'll see where we need to, shall we say, reconcile our differences, but at the end of the day we will have a great bill," she said. The Build Back Better bill is expected to undergo major revisions in the Senate as Democrats who have expressed concerns over aspects of the package are likely to demand significant changes.
Senate passes spending bill after deadline, averting shutdown - The Washington Post
Senate passes spending bill after deadline, averting shutdown.
Posted: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 07:00:00 GMT [source]
Later in the day, Masters was met by cheering crowds as a part of a tour alongside other statewide GOP candidates. On Monday, Kelly stressed his bipartisan efforts and support of bills that benefit service members at a press conference featuring former Sen. John McCain's son, Jack McCain. But, if O’Rourke were to win, he would become the first Democratic governor to be elected in Texas in 32 years. Tabulation machines at polling centers couldn’t read some of the folded ballots. Due to the increased size of the physical paper ballots, election workers had to fold them to fit them inside the secure transfer containers used to move paper ballots to and from polling locations.
The measure now heads to the Senate, where it could be considered late Friday. Appropriations for agencies covered by the bill lapse at midnight, though a brief funding gap and weekend presidential signature wouldn’t amount to a shutdown. Senate leaders were still working on an agreement on amendment votes needed to secure consent from all 100 senators to speed up the process. And it will give TikTok’s China-based parent company nine months, which the president could extend to a year, to sell the popular social media platform or be banned in the U.S. That puts TikTok closer than ever before to a prohibition while ensuring that it won’t be banned until after the 2024 election. TikTok has said it will fight the law in court once it is signed into law.
"I just haven't seen the final, the final bill. So when the final bill comes out, CBO score comes out, then we'll go from there," he said. In an interview, McConnell told NBC News that it was “extremely important” to him to boost military spending above nondefense domestic spending, describing it as essential to combating China. The divisions foreshadow a difficult two years ahead for Republicans as they oversee a paper-thin House majority and face down a Democratic-led Senate and Biden presidency.
The district, which contains the southeastern portion of the state, was considered a toss-up race by The Cook Political Report, despite a solid fundraising lead from Pappas. His win brings a small sigh of relief for Democrats, but the battle is far from over as Republicans home in on competitive races across the country and are favored to take control of the House. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade. State Democratic leaders introduced the proposition language after a draft of the court's decision leaked this past spring. Following the Supreme Court's final decision in June, California's Democratic-controlled Senate approved putting Proposition 1 on the ballot. Similarly the House passed a bi-partisan bill codifying same-sex marriage in July, worried that the right would not withstand the new conservative faction on the Supreme Court.
Listen on the radio, online via your local NPR station or through the NPR One app. Healey, Massachusetts' attorney general, never trailed in the polls, campaigning on expanding affordable housing and improving public transportation. In a historic victory, Maura Healey, a Massachusetts Democrat, is the nation's first openly lesbian governor-elect and the first woman to be elected governor of Massachusetts.
Minutes before the vote on assistance for Kyiv, Democrats began to wave small Ukrainian flags on the House floor, as hard-right Republicans jeered. Washington — The House and Senate both passed a bill this week to suspend the debt ceiling and limit government spending in strong bipartisan votes that allayed fears of an unprecedented U.S. government default. There’s no love lost between McCarthy and the eight Republicans who voted to oust him. Particularly on a day when they’re expected to allow the new speaker to pass his own clean CR without similar repercussions for his job. The federal government will shut down and be unable to continue paying its workers starting Saturday unless Congress passes a new funding bill. While airport security and air traffic controllers will still be required to show up for work without pay, past shutdowns have led to increases in absenteeism, which could be a recipe for flight delays and extreme security lines for holiday travelers.
She replaced Andrew Cuomo, who resigned under pressure last year over multiple sexual harassment claims. Importantly, Alaska uses ranked choice voting to tabulate its election results. As such, initial results from the first round may be available in the days after Election Day, but final results may not be released until two weeks later.
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