Former Sen. Christopher S. Bond, a senior appropriator who built a reputation as a collegial, cigar-puffing pragmatist, died on Tuesday at the age of 86, the office of Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe announced. No cause of death was provided. Bond, […]
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Texas Democratic freshman Rep. Sylvester Turner, who spent nearly three decades as a state lawmaker and eight years as Houston mayor, died on Wednesday just two months into his first term in Congress. Turner’s family said in a statement that
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Shomari Figures is the newest member of Alabama’s delegation, and one of two Democrats — the most the House has had from his state in nearly 15 years. Figures ran for Congress after a federal court ordered Alabama to redraw
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Newly sworn-in Democratic Sen. George S. Helmy of New Jersey doesn’t like to be in front of the camera — not because of a phobia, he said, but just because he doesn’t like it. “I know myself, and that’s not
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LaMonica McIver, the former Newark city council president, won a special election Wednesday in New Jersey’s 10th District to fill the unexpired term of the late Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr. McIver had 85 percent of vote to Republican Carmen
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