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2 days ago · The leader of the largest party is known as the majority leader, while the opposition leader is known as the minority leader. The Senate leaders also play an important role in appointing members of their party to the Senate committees, which consider and process legislation and exercise general control over government agencies and departments.
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20 hours ago · The United States is a constitutional federal republic, in which the president (the head of state and head of government ), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments. The federal government is divided into three branches, as per the specific ...
1 day ago · The John Birch Society ( JBS) is an American right-wing political advocacy group. [1] Founded in 1958, it is anti-communist, [2] [3] supports social conservatism, [2] [3] and is associated with ultraconservative, radical right, far-right, right-wing populist, and right-wing libertarian ideas. [12] Originally based in Belmont, Massachusetts, the ...
4 days ago · The map shows districts represented by Freedom Caucus members as of May 2024. Membership policy. The House Freedom Caucus does not disclose the names of its members and membership is by invitation only. The New York Times wrote in October 2015 that the caucus usually meets "in the basement of a local pub rather than at the Capitol."
3 days ago · Beth Fukumoto. Beth Fukumoto served three terms in the Hawaii House of Representatives. She was the youngest woman in the U.S. to lead a major party in a legislature, the first elected Republican ...
4 days ago · Green parties first emerged in the United States in 1984 with the creation by a small group of environmentalists of a state party in Maine.The party’s founding meeting was initiated by two local activists, Alan Philbrook and John Rensenbrink, who had previously campaigned against Maine’s sole nuclear power plant.
5 days ago · Nigel Farage (born April 3, 1964, London, England) is a British politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2020. He led the populist libertarian United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and again from 2010 to 2016. In 2019 he launched the Brexit Party.
