Congressional GOP pledges swift action on Trump’s agenda

She came to the United States while still a child, escaping Somalia’s civil war with her family and spending four years in a Kenyan refugee camp. Walker said permitting Democrats to obstruct GOP legislative goals because of an “inside-the-ballpark Washington procedural reason. would really upset the electorate of the people who not only elected Donald Trump and Mike Pence but the people who elected Ron (Johnson)”.

The Republican Party has kept its hold over Congress, capping a dire night for the Democrats.

Combined, the results in the states did not dramatically alter the GOP wave of success that followed Republicans’ redrawing legislative districts in 2010.

In other House races, former state Rep. Loranne Ausley, D-Tallahassee, returned to the Legislature with a 56-44 percent victory over Jim Messer, a Tallahassee Republican, in District 9.

North Carolina voters have given Republicans a ringing endorsement, with one lone exception: Gov.

The future of professional football in San Diego has been cast into doubt after voters overwhelmingly defeated a new downtown stadium plan for the San Diego Chargers in Tuesday’s election.

Susan Susana Martinez is calling Donald Trump’s election victory a testament to frustrations with Washington and the federal government.

Ryan, in his first interview since Trump’s election, said Thursday on Fox News, that he is confident that he won’t be challenged – and heaped praise on the President-elect. “We are going to hit the ground running”.

Democrats could regroup under the influence of Vermont Sen. (That includes Nebraska, which has a technically nonpartisan, single-chamber legislature.) The Democrats will be in full command in 13 states. Democrats will control only 30, the same breakdown as before voters went to the polls. But he is not immune to ire from the Freedom Caucus, which chased former Speaker John Boehner from Congress a year ago, and other Republicans upset over his frigid treatment of Trump.

In striking and decisive fashion, Republicans in Tuesday’s election flipped six seats in the Iowa Senate, giving the GOP control of the chamber for the first time since 2004 and full control of state government — the Iowa House, Iowa Senate and governor’s office — for the first time since 1998.

They also held on to their majorities in chambers in several states that had been targeted by the Democrats, and apparently gained a tie in the previously Democratic-controlled Connecticut Senate.

Also in Delaware County, Republican Alex Charlton, who is chief of staff to a state senator, beat Democrat Elaine Schaefer, a Radnor Township commissioner, in the race for Republican State Rep. Bill Adolph’s seat. Schumer is expected to be the next Democratic leader with Harry Reid’s retirement, and could potentially become majority leader.

From there Trump strolled through the Capitol’s stately Ohio Clock Corridor with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who’d been quick to endorse him but critical of his rhetoric and undisciplined campaign style. Republicans had only a slight financial edge. If the vote counts stand, that would give them 32 of the Senate’s 63 seats, making them a powerful force when combined with a group of breakaway Independent Democratic Conference members they have partnered with to run the upper house. But the GOP appears to have picked up a couple of seats.

Proponents of marijuana in ME want the state to join California, Nevada and MA in making the drug legal for recreational use in the state. Exit polls indicate an very bad lot of Republicans had a dim opinion of Trump and voted for him anyway.

In legislative races where recounts are likely, Democrat Daymon Ely of Corrales held a lead over incumbent GOP Rep. Paul Pacheco of Albuquerque.

Tuesday’s results were a disaster for Democrats. Carl Marcellino was narrowly beating Democrat James Gaughran and GOP Sen. As of Wednesday, Democratic candidates had defeated one GOP incumbent and held leads over two others.

Elsewhere on the ballot, Republicans were celebrating significant inroads in state executive offices around the country.

In Montana, former state Sen. OR elected state Rep. Dennis Richardson (R) as its new Secretary of State over Brad Avakian, the incumbent Commissioner of Labor and Industries. Helen Riehle to replace her. Riehle did not seek re-election.