Finding 60 votes in an evenly divided Senate? A high bar, but not an impossible one
The current Senate has managed to clear the 60-vote hurdle to avoid a filibuster on several of its main legislative achievements.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The current Senate has managed to clear the 60-vote hurdle to avoid a filibuster on several of its main legislative achievements.
Third-quarter 2021 inflation was higher in nearly all (39) of the 46 nations analyzed than in the pre-pandemic third quarter of 2019.
A small but significant share of car owners in the U.S. have traded filling up for plugging in, and many more are thinking of joining them.
A recent Center survey focused on gig platform work. Here is more information about how we crafted the survey and what we learned from it.
The 117th Congress’ total legislative output stands at 36 laws – only 30 of which count, by our criteria, as substantive legislation.
Putting minimum wage policy in the hands of lawmakers is one of several ways in which the U.S. approach stands apart from other countries.
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.
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