Late shifts in dynamics, but GOP still holds Senate advantage
A Washington Post poll of likely voters released earlier this month found Brown at 48 percent and Moreno at 47 percent, with a 3.5 percent margin of error.
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Senate’s most vulnerable list still dominated by Democrats
The latest Marquette Law School poll released Wednesday found Baldwin leading Hovde, 52 percent to 47 percent, among likely voters when undecided voters were asked to pick.
How the nonreligious in Congress view Speaker Mike Johnson
But church membership has been dropping over the past two decades, falling to 47 percent in 2020.
House GOP looks ahead to Plan B after doomed stopgap vote
On the Senate side, lawmakers are working on a 47-day bipartisan stopgap funding measure, with a cloture vote scheduled for Saturday.
Senate panel advances Su for Labor secretary
All three supported Su in 2021 when the Senate voted 50-47 along party lines to confirm her as deputy Labor secretary. None have said yet how they’ll vote.
Senate supporters rally to Labor nominee Su against GOP critics
All three voted in favor of Su in 2021 when the Senate voted 50-47 along party lines to confirm her as deputy Labor secretary. None have said yet how they’ll vote and none are on the committee.
Tester run helps Democrats, but Montana still an uphill fight
Corrected 6:47 p.m. | Montana Sen.
Congress · 117th Congress
Deal reached on amendments, omnibus motors towards passage
The chamber overwhelmingly rejected the Sinema-Tester measure, 10-87, but it gave wavering Democrats cover to reject the Lee amendment, which went down on a 47-50 vote.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate passes $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill
The latter amendment then was rejected, 47-50.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate immigration showdown ends with Title 42 stalemate
Lee’s amendment then was rejected on a 47-50 vote. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said Thursday that the Sinema-Tester amendment extending Title 42 was “set up not to pass.”
Congress · 117th Congress
Democrats revel in history during Supreme Court confirmation vote
The chamber burst into a standing ovation when Harris called the final tally, 53-47, to put Jackson on the highest court in the land after Justice Stephen G.
Congress · 117th Congress
Odds dimming for quick passage of $10B virus aid package
In a 47-52 vote that was subject to a 60-vote threshold, the Senate did not agree to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to the legislative vehicle, a now irrelevant House-passed fiscal 2022
Congress · 117th Congress
Biden ties midterm election legitimacy to doomed voting rights bill
Even as Schumer and 47 members of his caucus were preparing, with Biden’s support, to go it alone with an effort to force a vote to change Senate precedent and create a path to pass the voting rights
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Don’t rule out a GOP Senate wave
But in the Senate, Democrats won eight seats, taking them from 47 seats to 55 seats and the majority.
Opinion · 117th Congress
With Democrats in the doldrums, just how much is Biden to blame?
Since the end of June, Biden has seen his approval rating for handling COVID-19 sharply decline from 62 percent to 47 percent in the Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Kamala Harris is right: Virginia result will resonate in 2022, 2024 and beyond
whom they had more confidence to handle that issue, Youngkin easily won four of the five top issues over McAuliffe by solid margins: economy/jobs (55 percent to 44 percent); education (53 percent to 47
Opinion · 117th Congress
Time for Biden to get out of the Build Back Better bubble
An Oct. 6-8 CBS News/YouGov survey of U.S. adults found Biden at 47 percent to 53 percent on infrastructure; 37 percent to 63 percent on Afghanistan; and 47 percent to 53 percent on climate change
Opinion · 117th Congress
Joe Manchin is a bona fide centrist. Deal with it
In a May 22-25 Fox News Poll, 47 percent of voters said the Biden administration was proposing too much of an increase in government spending, while only 33 percent said it was the right amount.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
These senators owe their careers to redistricting
But Arizona gained a seat through reapportionment following the 2010 census and the independent redistricting commission created a Tempe-based 9th District that Obama carried 51 percent to 47 percent
Congress · 116th Congress
In close vote, Senate makes first lame-duck Fed confirmation
The Senate made Christopher Waller the first Federal Reserve Board nominee to be confirmed during a lame duck session, in a tight 48-47 vote Thursday. Republican Sen.