The Smithsonian has Jefferson’s copy. Be appropriate.
I knew the the bit about atheists, but wasn’t sure about whether other religious tomes other than the Bible are allowed and/or been used in the past.
For Muslims?
Jefferson also created his own version of the Bible
When Keith Ellison (coincidentally Ilhan Omar’s predecessor in the MN-5 seat) was sworn in in 2006 he used Jefferson’s Qur’an.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_110th_United_States_Congress
Republicans tried to oppose it and used a bunch of incendiary rhetoric to voice their opinions.
Or a Quaker, or for that matter any random Christian who interprets Matt. 5:33-37 the way they do. (How else can one read it? Seems to be the plain meaning of the passage.)
Not sure why the swear-v.-affirm thing would matter to atheists. Swearing isn’t specifically a religious thing.
You and Elendil’s Heir too. 
Anybody mention the dead brothel owner elected in Nevada? Another example of Republican hypocrisy. They complain about Democrats and “dead voters”, but they run dead candidates.
Really? “Appalling” to have more voters voting in a midterm than ever before and about as high of a fraction of eligible voters as ever, closing in on as many in some presidential cycles.
Huh.
Nope I am impressed. Most important to me is that Millennials and those following finally flexed their muscles.. In a midterm in which overall turnout increased by 37% compared to the last midterm, the 18 to 29 group increased their share of the vote by 18% (from 11 to 13% of the total vote).
This is very significant.
Wisconsin Republicans want to take power away from the Governor before Evers takes office.
Yeah, it was ok when it was OUR guy in charge but now, well geez, maybe we need to get some of that back. Assholes.
Yes it’s possibly significant and hopeful but surely you realize that penultima thule’s point was that the absolute numbers are bad. This was a high octane election and you still didn’t break 50%.
In light of today, big props to this:
I personally would have given it a week or two.
A Trump Tower of subpoenas.
Dumb question, but what does the Senate do, as opposed to Congress?
I’m sure I could google it for an in-depth discussion, but as a dumb Canadian I’m looking for a simple succinct answer.
Thank you.
What were they supposed to do? The laws of Nevada didn’t allow for replacement before the election. Since he’s dead, a replacement will be selected now after the election. All of the people in that district understood what was going on; indeed, local commentary indicated he was more likely to win after dying, because everyone knew that the seat would stay Republican and he wasn’t going to be filling it.
Not that it matters in the least; SW rural Nevada has gone Republican like forever. Pahrump’s not exactly a bastion of liberal thinking.
See North Carolina two years ago for the playbook on this. :eek:
The Senate is one of the two Houses of Congress (the House of Representatives, usually shortened to “the House”, is the other). The two houses are co-equal members of the Legislative branch, but there are some extra duties the Senate has. These include approving the President’s cabinet members, the President’s appointees for federal court positions (including the Supreme Court), and the approval of treaties the President makes. The Senate has some rules specific to that branch of the Congress, most specifically the “filibuster”, which allows a member of Congress to continue to “debate” a bill endlessly, unless the rest of the Senate votes for “cloture” of debate. That currently takes 60 out of 100 Senators to accomplish; a successful vote means that the Senate can then vote on the bill being debated a certain number of hours later.
The TL;DR version is that Congress is the House (lower) and Senate (upper.) The House drafts legislation but the Senate has power to approve or reject it. If the Senate approves it, then it goes to the president for his approval/rejection.
Another important point is that “co-equal” means legislation has to be passed by both houses. Similar to Parliament and the Senate in Canada with the crucial difference that the American Senate is not remotely a rubber stamp thing.
Article I of the U.S. Constitution specifies the election, powers and role of Congress, and is a relatively quick read: http://constitutionus.com/
Some other key differences: revenue bills have to start in the House, as do articles of impeachment (which, if approved, are then tried in the Senate). The House also has no role in providing advice and consent to presidential nominations; that’s the Senate’s bailiwick.
Interesting.
Thank you.
The Senate in Canada servers the same purpose, essentially, but they are appointed, not elected.
But I’ll be damned if I ever heard of Senate reject or reverse anything.