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↵↵The annual address to a joint session of Congress — the longest in U.S. history at 1 hour, 47 minutes and 43 seconds — featured some of the most partisan moments in recent memory, with the chief executive
A Washington Post-IPSOS-ABC News poll conducted Feb. 12-17 found that 60 percent of respondents disapproved of how Trump is handling the job, including 47 percent who strongly disapproved.
"For 47 years, they've been talking and talking and talking. In the meantime, we've lost a lot of lives while they talk. Legs blown off, arms blown off, faces blown off.
The vote was 52-47, with all Democrats except Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania in opposition.
That move also came up short, with a motion to waive a budget point of order on the amendment defeated on a 47-52 vote.
↵↵But that visit was canceled days before it was to take place and is now scheduled for Tuesday — 47 days after her office made the request, the filing states.↵↵Rep.
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
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.”
Murphy, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, said if the Lee amendment were attached it would sabotage the omnibus in the House later this week, including $47 billion
Scott’s amendment to eliminate tens of billions of dollars in mandatory IRS funding Democrats enacted in their climate, tax and health law was rejected on a 45-47 vote.
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
She was confirmed 61-36 by the full Senate, with 14 Republicans joining all 47 Democratic caucus members voting “aye.”
Her nomination was confirmed in a 47-34 vote along party lines.
“I’ve been here for 47 years, and I have never once discussed anything in the caucus in 47 years,” Leahy said. Reed also declined to comment on the discussions.
The final bill passed the Senate on an 87-13 vote and the House on a 369-47 vote. Stabenow will be the only one of the four still in Congress in 2021.
The outcome was hardly in doubt, since the Senate had agreed to advance Vought on a procedural vote of 47-44 just before the Independence Day recess.
Vought appears likely to win confirmation in the Senate, where Republicans have a 53-47 margin.
It usually takes 60 votes to end debate on spending bills in the Senate, making bipartisanship a must with the current 53-47 split in that chamber.
On paper, the math for the 44-year-old Vought is easier than it was in 2018: There are now two more Republicans in the Senate, holding a 53-47 margin.
For 2017, the last full year for which data is available, Couch and Wilson had the third and fourth highest number of board-remanded cases — at 50 and 47 respectively, according to federal documents