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The 2016 Texas Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Texas voters elected state senators in 16 of the 31 state senate districts. The winners of this election served in the 85th Texas Legislature. State senators serve four-year terms in the Texas State Senate.
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Oct 24, 2016 · Texas is now a Red State. But, how long will it stay that way. Polls in Texas show GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump leading Democrat Hillary Clinton by just 3 or 4 points. But there's a lot of evidence that suggests it's not support for Clinton, but dislike of Trump that's causing the close race. Dowd said mix that with ongoing dislike of ...
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Oct 31, 2016 · Editors’ Note: This story was originally published on Oct 24, 2016. We all know Texas is a red state. Democrats haven’t won a statewide election since 1994, and Republicans have carried the ...
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- How The District Sizes Up
- Changing The Political Math
- An Unlikely Future
“Defending the new Constitution, James Madison assured his fellow Americans that residents of this new capital district would happily live there ‘as they will have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them,’” wrote Hoyer in his op-ed. “But for 228 years, our government has denied them that voice.” St...
What will happen politically if the district becomes the 51st state? How will the distribution of representatives and senators among the states change? The answers show why Republicans consistently vote against statehood for the district. Every state has two senators. Currently, the Senate has 45 Democrats, plus two independent senators who caucus ...
Statehood discussions for the district have a long history, going back to the 1950s. A bill even made it onto the House floorin 1993, but it was defeated in the House of Representatives by a vote of 277 to 153. For the district to become the 51st state today, the Hoyer-Norton bill would need to first pass in the House. Given the Democratic majority...
Jul 9, 2020 · On June 26, 2020, the House of Representatives passed a bill called “H.R. 51” that would make Washington, D.C. the 51st state. Though the bill will likely not pass the Senate, the fact...
Apr 15, 2016 · By Tessa Berenson. April 15, 2016 1:57 PM EDT. W ith Washington, D.C.’s mayor calling for a November vote on statehood, it raises the question, why wasn’t the nation’s capital made a state...
Mar 22, 2021 · However in January 2021, after the Democrats took control of the White House and Senate, Democrats reintroduced legislation to make D.C. a state once again. The bill was introduced by nonvoting delegate to the House, Eleanor Holmes Norton , who would have no say in its passage.
