One US senator has died, another is facing criminal charges and one more is dealing with health problems. Who replaces a senator who is no longer in the seat?
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As fashion norms change, what people wear in public becomes ground zero for hashing out new ideas of race, class and gender.
While a single shutdown is unlikely to push a government worker to quit, the cumulative effect of multiple shutdowns can lead to low worker morale and employee retention problems.
The indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez is full of lurid details – hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash stuffed into clothes among them. Will they tank Menendez’s career?
In the wake of two public episodes of Mitch McConnell appearing to ‘freeze,’ a longtime Kentucky journalist explains how an uncharismatic Kentucky lawyer came to rule the Senate.
The framers decided that members of both the House and Senate would be required to be “an inhabitant” of the state they represent.
Pittsburgh’s mayor renamed the city ‘Swiftsburgh’ when the singer’s tour hit town. He’s not the only politician publicly fawning over the star.
Physical ailments and deteriorated health may be the one area in which politicians can escape scrutiny.
Folk singer and activist Woody Guthrie actually had thoughts about the national debt – and politicians in general. They’re remarkably apt today.
The bar was always too hard for Dutton. This week’s budget, whatever criticisms can be made of it, has been an elusive target for the Liberals
If the US fails to increase its debt ceiling by June 1, it could be forced into an embarrassing – and hugely costly – default on its obligations.
House Republicans have adopted a rule used periodically over the past 150 years that allows lawmakers to speed up and streamline votes to dismantle federal programs and fire federal employees.
Health struggles are part of the human condition, but politicians often resist revealing full medical records. The media often help lawmakers hide their conditions. That shortchanges the voters.
Most Americans knew the late Dianne Feinstein as a US senator. But for San Francisco voters, she will forever be remembered as the woman who stepped in at a tragic moment to lead the city.
The House GOP has announced a slew of investigations, including a review of the conduct of the Department of Justice and its investigations of Donald Trump.
What happens if GOP holdouts continue to hold out on the speaker position? And what if they don’t?
The House Jan. 6 committee’s final report is the latest in a long series of congressional studies that have tried to answer hard questions about government failures and suggest ways to avoid them.
Weaknesses in the law governing how elections are run and votes counted in Congress led to the Jan. 6 insurrection. An election law scholar analyzes legislation just passed to fix those problems.
With Democrats running the Senate and the GOP in control of the House, there’s concern that Congress won’t get anything done. Turns out, unified government isn’t very productive in the first place.
Sen. Raphael Warnock’s win over GOP challenger Herschel Walker had implications beyond Georgia – and offers a lesson in how far the state has come from its racist past.
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Associate professor in law and public policy, University of Oxford
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Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Political Science, George Mason University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
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VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University
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Professor emerita, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
