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Two new state legislative special elections have been added to our list. The special elections are for the 2nd Hampden and Hampshire District and the Plymouth and Barnstable District seats in the Massachusetts State Senate on March 31, 2020. The primary is on March 3, and the filing deadline is on January 28.

A resolution introduced under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) in the U.S. House of Representatives on December 6 aims to block a new rule governing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) work requirement waivers.   The new rule grants waivers to SNAP work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD) only if the unemployment rate is…

Last week, Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) announced he was retiring in 2020, making him the 19th Republican member of the U.S. House to do so. To date, four Senators (three Republicans and one Democrat) and 32 Representatives (23 Republicans and nine Democrats) are not running for re-election. In 2018, 55 total members of Congress—18 Democrats…

Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers reflect the time investments of our community of thousands of readers who visit a Ballotpedia because they think the candidate is worth knowing more about, whether they believe the candidate has a strong chance of winning or is…

Seven Democrats qualified for the sixth presidential primary debate taking place on Dec. 19: former Vice President Joe Biden, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, former investor Tom Steyer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang. Three candidates who participated in the Nov. 20 debate will be missing from the stage: Sen. Cory…

The U.S. Senate confirmed two nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Overall, the Senate has confirmed 174 of President Trump’s judicial nominees—120 district court judges, 50 appeals court judges, two Court of International Trade judges, and two Supreme Court justices—since January 2017. At the end of the 115th Congress in…

Four candidates filed for the May 12 special election to represent Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House. Party primaries will take place on February 18. Jason Church and Tom Tiffany are running in the Republican primary. Church, a veteran and former aide to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), has been endorsed by U.S.…

Each week, we report the number of pageviews received by 2020 presidential campaigns on Ballotpedia. These numbers show which candidates are getting our readers’ attention. Tom Steyer’s campaign page on Ballotpedia received 3,282 views for the week of December 1-7. Steyer’s pageview figure represents 9.1% of the pageviews for the week. Andrew Yang had 8.8%…

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) last week issued a 2019 update on the Trump administration’s 2-to-1 regulatory policy, which requires agencies to eliminate two old regulations for each new regulation issued. Though the requirement only applies to what are called significant regulations—those with an economic impact of $100 million or more—the update includes information…