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- larger congressional body. Countries with congressional districts include the United States, the Philippines, and Japan. Terminology for congressional districts...
United States congressional apportionment is the process by which seats in the United States House of Representatives are distributed among the 50 states...- Congressional staff are employees of the United States Congress or individual members of Congress. The position first developed in the late 19th century...
- 2000 Congressional Elections, out of the 435 Congressional districts in which there were elections, 359 were listed as "safe" by Congressional Quarterly...
- Provincial Assembly 13 February: United States, New York, 3rd congressional district, special election 14 February: Indonesia, Regional Houses of Representatives...
A congressional committee is a legislative sub-organization in the United States Congress that handles a specific duty (rather than the general duties...
First-past-the-post voting (redirect from Single-member district plurality)Maine and Nebraska use a variation where the electoral vote of each congressional district is awarded by FPTP (or by RCV in Maine beginning in 2020), and the...- Marginal seat (redirect from Marginal district)Chicago, Texas's 23rd congressional district, covering most of Texas' border with Mexico, and New Hampshire's 1st congressional district, which includes much...
Gerrymandering in the United States (category United States congressional districts)of Delegates in 1788, they drew the boundaries of Virginia's 5th congressional district in an unsuccessful attempt to keep James Madison out of the U.S...
representatives who, pursuant to the Uniform Congressional District Act, sit in single member congressional districts allocated to each state on the basis of...
Survey township (redirect from Congressional township)A survey township, sometimes called a Congressional township or just township, as used by the United States Public Land Survey System and by Canada's...
Red states and blue states (category United States presidential elections terminology)Nebraska, via the state's (much less conservative as a whole) second congressional district. Obama also came close to winning Missouri and Montana, losing both...- An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, electorate, or...
- representatives are memorialized by cenotaphs at the cemetery. Specialized terminology is used on this list. The term cenotaph includes not only monuments that...
Gerrymandering (redirect from 70/30 District)effort redrew congressional district lines in ways that all but guaranteed incumbent victories; as a result, California saw only one congressional seat change...- Jasper Womach. Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition (PDF). Congressional Research Service. v t e v t e...
Recess (break) (redirect from Congressional recess)the United States, recess policies are largely dependent on the school district, and vary from state to state and from school to school. Most states do...
Pork barrel (category Political terminology of the United States)President's budget request or the previous year's funding Not the subject of Congressional hearings Serves only a local or special interest. The term pork barrel...- Earmark (politics) (category Political terminology of the United States)with or to an entity, or targeted to a specific State, locality or Congressional district, other than through a statutory or administrative formula-driven...
- Sophomore surge (category Political science terminology)the United States Congress that refers to an increase in votes that congressional candidates (candidates for the House of Representatives) usually receive...
- evidence presented and compiled at extensive congressional hearings, much of which was compiled after the district court hearing in Stenberg, and thus not
- for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and then for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013
- period of stalled capital funding from expressway proponents before a congressional vote stopped the logjam. The first leg of the system opened in 1976