Nothing lame about this lame duck: 116th Congress had busiest post-election session in recent history
No lame-duck session in the nearly 5 decades for which data is available has been as legislatively productive as that of the 116th Congress.
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No lame-duck session in the nearly 5 decades for which data is available has been as legislatively productive as that of the 116th Congress.
Women make up just over a quarter of all members of the 117th Congress – the highest percentage in U.S. history.
Americans voted in record numbers in last year’s presidential election, casting nearly 158.4 million ballots.
Response to the pandemic has pushed the federal budget higher than it’s been in decades, but Americans are slightly less concerned about the deficit than in recent years.
As of the end of 2017, 57% of 167 countries with populations of at least 500,000 were democracies of some kind, and only 13% were autocracies.
A conversation with the director of the Center’s Data Labs team on their new report on congressional communications and the uses and misuses of “big data.”
Although Europe is struggling to manage the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere, the countries facing the biggest refugee impacts are the ones closest to the fighting.
Women now make up 20% of Congress, a record high. But women have more representation in most countries’ national legislatures.
Lame duck congressional sessions have become more common in recent years, but their actual legislative productivity has varied considerably.
Claire Durand, a sociology professor at the University of Montreal, discusses recent polling on the issue of Scottish independence.
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