DemDaily: Departing The House. Retirements and Special Elections
May 13, 2021 Now almost five months into the 2022 election cycle, eleven House members have announced their retirements or plan to leave to run for a higher office. The partisan breakdown of the...
Posted 1 day ago
DemDaily: Texas Election Results and the 2021 Calendar
May 3, 2021 In Saturday’s Special Election for Texas’ Sixth Congressional District, Republicans Susan Wright and Jake Ellzey advanced to a July 27th runoff election for the seat held...
Posted May 3, 2021
DemDaily: The Composition of Congress. The Breakdown
April 12, 2021 The 117th Congress, as sworn in on January 3, 2021, is the most diverse in race and gender in history, as well as one of the most highly educated. The United States Senate is...
Posted April 12, 2021
DemDaily: Louisiana’s 2nd CD Goes To A Run-Off
March 23, 2021 Two of this year’s five schedule congressional special elections were held in Louisiana last Saturday, securing a Republican succession in one, and guaranteeing a Democratic...
Posted March 23, 2021
DemDaily: Status of Statehood
March 22, 2021 Today, the US House Committee on Oversight and Reform heard four hours of testimony on H.R.51, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s bill to make the District of Columbia the...
Posted March 22, 2021
DemDaily: Six Votes
March 15, 2021 While the partisan legislative battles wage on in Congress, there is still one unsettled election challenge that may soon take center stage. Last week the House Administration...
Posted March 15, 2021
DemDaily: Bloody Sunday
March 8, 2021 Yesterday marked the 56th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when a 25-year-old John Lewis and some 600 peaceful civil rights marchers were brutally attacked on the Edmund...
Posted March 8, 2021
DemDaily: What’s Happening With The Minimum Wage?
March 2, 2021 The history of the federal minimum wage, already one of political struggle, added a new footnote to its tumultuous journey last Thursday when it became the center of a parliamentary...
Posted March 2, 2021
DemDaily: Incitement of Insurrection
January 11, 2021 While the nation still reels from the violent assault on the Capitol and our democracy Wednesday, members of Congress are debating the final chapter of Donald Trump’s...
Posted January 11, 2021
DemDaily: The Last 24 Hours of History
January 7, 2021 Yesterday morning, as members of the 117th Congress prepared to meet in a joint session of Congress to certify the results of the Electoral College vote electing Joe Biden as our...
Posted January 7, 2021
