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  2. 2020 in United States politics and government - Wikipedia

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    2020 United States House of Representatives elections: Republicans make gains although Democrats retain control. 2020 United States gubernatorial elections: Republicans flip Montana, increasing their control to 27 gubernatorial mansions. Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election.

  3. United States presidential approval rating - Wikipedia

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    United States presidential approval rating. In the United States, presidential job approval ratings were first conducted by George Gallup (estimated to be 1937) to gauge public support for the president of the United States during their term. An approval rating is a percentage determined by polling which indicates the percentage of respondents ...

  4. Seniority in the United States House of Representatives

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    An example of this ranking system is Rep. Pete Sessions had previously served eleven terms, from 1997 to 2019 (after his defeat in the 2018 midterms), when he was once again elected in 2020. Instead of holding seniority with others whose terms began January 3, 2021, he was credited with ten terms, and holds seniority above all representatives ...

  5. List of Jewish American politicians - Wikipedia

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    January 20, 2021. February 8, 2023. Joe Biden. (2021–present) Director of National Intelligence. Avril Haines [28] January 21, 2021. Incumbent. Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

  6. List of political parties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A National Convention of the great Presidential year of 1924 was held in Manhattan. Before the Convention, the name of the Party was the Single Tax Party. After the Convention it was the Commonwealth Land Party. But the change was only a change of name. ^ Saloutos, Theodore (1946).

  7. United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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    The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the main investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives . The committee's broad jurisdiction and legislative authority make it one of the most influential and powerful panels in the House. Its chair is one of only three in the House with the authority to issue subpoenas ...

  8. V-Dem Democracy Indices - Wikipedia

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    By 2020, the V-Dem index had "more than 470 indicators, 82 mid-level indices, and 5 high-level indices covering 202 polities from the period of 1789–2019". Each indicator is coded independently by at least five country experts. V-Dem uses methodological tools to deal with rating reliability and confidence intervals in the expert ratings.

  9. Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. federal government, sometimes simply referred to as "Washington", is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the president, and the federal courts, respectively. [2]