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War powers↵↵Last week, senators voted 52-47 to discharge from the Foreign Relations Committee a war powers resolution that would bar U.S. military action "within or against" Venezuela absent specific congressional
In total, Democratic candidates outpaced GOP candidates, 50 percent to 47 percent.
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
As recently as 2008, Peterson took 72 percent of the vote in the district to Barack Obama’s 47 percent.
But the 47 votes the Democratic caucus can muster isn’t enough to stop the confirmation machine, without four GOP colleagues willing to break ranks.
What was once thought to be an easy 53-47 party line that would avoid prolonging the trial didn’t appear to be as safe a bet after revelations from a manuscript of Bolton’s upcoming White House memoir
The next two contests in 2016 were won by Clinton, who bested Sanders narrowly in Nevada (53 percent to 47 percent) but clobbered him in South Carolina (73 percent to 26 percent.)
Nearly half (47 percent) of independent voters and 38 percent of all respondents said the influence of big money from corporations and special interests in the nation’s politics amounted to an “extremely
Shortly after a 47-page indictment accusing him of misusing campaign funds was unsealed last year, Duncan Hunter appeared to place the blame for the misappropriated funds on his spouse, citing her
Four of the senators referenced in that one fundraising message are still serving in the current narrow, 53-47, GOP majority, and both the SCF and Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general,
Scholten by 3 points, 50.3 percent to 47 percent. Iowa Democrats are urging Scholten to run again, multiple outlets have reported.
More telling was a Gallup poll from early February that found that 47 percent of respondents felt that large numbers of undocumented immigrants entering the United States is a critical threat.
The strategy will be successful if at least 41 of the 47 senators in the Democratic Conference vote against motions to proceed, which require 60 votes to formally begin debate on a bill.