… Over the first two years of Trump’s presidency, the average GOP member overwhelmingly sided with Trump — 93 percent of the time in the House and 91 percent of the time in the Senate, according to FiveThirtyEight’s Trump score metric, which tracks how often each member of Congress votes […] Read more »
Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 116th Congress
The new, 116th Congress includes the first two Muslim women ever to serve in the House of Representatives, and is, overall, slightly more religiously diverse than the prior Congress. There has been a 3-percentage-point decline in the share of members of Congress who identify as Christian – in the 115th […] Read more »
Go ahead, Mitt Romney: Utah Republicans are the most anti-Trump
Mitt Romney is the latest Republican to go after President Donald Trump. But there’s one major difference between Romney and most other Trump critics: Romney’s home state. Romney is in the perfect state, Utah, to launch his anti-Trump attacks from. He is far more likely to have the Republican base […] Read more »
POLITICO-Harvard poll: New Congress should fight hate crimes, tackle drug prices
Americans want the new Congress to combat a surge in hate crimes and follow through on longstanding concerns like President Donald Trump’s pledge to lower drug prices, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard poll gauging the public’s priorities for 2019. The poll reflects changing attitudes since the November elections as the […] Read more »
Why the New Democratic Majority Could Work Better Than the Last
The new Democratic majority that takes command of the House on Thursday starts with 21 fewer seats than the party held the last time it elected Nancy Pelosi as speaker. But this new majority may prove easier for the party to both manage legislatively and defend electorally. Though slightly smaller, […] Read more »
Congressional Leaders Unpopular on Balance
As the 116th U.S. Congress convenes today, its top leaders face a public that, on balance, holds them in low esteem. Nancy Pelosi, who is expected to be elected speaker of the House for the second time following the Democratic gains in the November midterm elections, is viewed favorably by […] Read more »