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Mar 29 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Maryland Senate voted 30-13 for revised congressional map that favors Democrats in 7 of 8 districts. The 1st District of Andy Harris would lean Republican.
Rep. David Trone's #MD06 would become less strongly Democratic but Rs objected it still links western MD to D-heavy Montgomery County near DC.

“This map, while prettier, is nothing more than lipstick on a pig,” state Sen. Michael Hough (R) said during today’s floor debate
Maryland House Rules Committee advanced the new congressional map.

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Mar 29
Missouri redistricting: state House voted 115-19 to refuse to adopt the Senate's congressional map, and to request that the Senate grant the House a conference.
Missouri House passed its map Jan. 19 but Missouri Senate didn't pass its map until March 24, or 5 days before today's candidate filing deadline (5 pm local time)
“I think it’s in our best interest to take this vote today to go to conference, continue our work in the House, and hopefully the Senate will agree and we can come to a conference and come up with a better map for the state of Missouri.” – House redistricting chair Dan Shaul (R)
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Nov 10, 2021
"After Virginia Votes" #VAGOV postmortem with Will Ritter, media strategist for Glenn Youngkin's campaign, and Michael Halle, senior adviser to Terry McAuliffe's campaign:
1/x
Halle (D): "What we did not anticipate was the level of turnout on election day and that early voting would make up less than 35% of the overall vote. As the early vote and vote by mail surged at the end, we were expecting it was going to make up a larger proportion." 2/x
Halle: "What certainly I think we didn't expect was that some of the more Republican areas would be performing at near 2020 levels."
3/x
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Oct 5, 2021
IOWA: Republican-led state Senate rejected the 1st set of congressional & state legislative maps from the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency, which will draw up a 2nd set of maps for consideration.

The 18-32 vote was straight party-line.
Sen. Roby Smith (R): the proposed districts “may meet statutory requirements, however there are opportunities for these maps to be improved on compactness and population deviation. Voting down the first plan does not violate the quote-unquote gold standard.”
Sen. Pam Jochum (D): “This map is fair. It’s independent. It does not give an advantage of one party over the other. It does not -- nor should it. Nor does it take into account where any of us live -- nor should it.”
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Jan 6, 2021
Some past joint sessions of Congress to count and certify electoral votes (video):

1989: c-span.org/video/?7752-1/…

1993: c-span.org/video/?36840-1…

1997: c-span.org/video/?77764-1…

2001: c-span.org/video/?161423-… 1/
2005:

Part 1: c-span.org/video/?185007-…

House debate on Boxer/Tubbs Jones' Ohio objection & vote (objection rejected 31-267): c-span.org/video/?185005-…

Senate debate on Ohio objection & vote (rejected 1-74): c-span.org/video/?185006-…

Part 2: c-span.org/video/?185007-… 2/
More joint sessions of Congress to count and certify electoral votes:

2009: c-span.org/video/?283204-…

2013: c-span.org/video/?310219-…

2017: c-span.org/video/?421237-…
3/
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Jan 4, 2021
27 people have served more than 40 years in the House, including two who began their 41st year of service as the 117th Congress began: Hal Rogers (R-KY) and Chris Smith (R-NJ)
First elected in 1980, Rogers and Smith are tied for second in House seniority behind “Dean of the House” Don Young (R-AK), who’s nearing 48 years of House service.
Young is 87. Rogers is 83. Smith, first elected at 27 in 1980, is just 67 (younger than almost 100 House members in the 117th Congress including NJ colleague Jeff Van Drew, who’s 9 days older).
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Jan 3, 2021
Speaker's election underway. Conducted aloud on House floor, alphabetically by member-elect surname.

Winner needs majority of members-elect voting for a candidate by surname. Can win with fewer than 218.

Pelosi, McCarthy formally nominated, but members-elect can vote for anyone
Blue Dog Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) voted for Pelosi for speaker for the 1st time since 2009.

Cooper voted "present" in 2019 and for Tim Ryan in 2017, Colin Powell in both 2015 elections and in 2013, and Heath Shuler in 2011. #tn05
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), who voted for Tammy Duckworth for speaker as a freshman in 2019, voted for Pelosi after an easy re-election win in #co06
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