If Electoral College Fails, House Decides
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One near-certainty in this election of many uncertainties is that if the Electoral College can't pick a winner, George W. Bush will stay in the White House.
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For some, voting day will be violent and disappointing. For others, just plain confusing. And the Sunnis may have to be drawn in after the fact
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WASHINGTON - The House passed legislation Thursday that would prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on whether the words "under God" should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance.    In a politically and emotionally charged debate six weeks before Election Day, Democrats said majority Republicans were debasing the Constitution to force a vote that could hurt Democrats at the ballot box...
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New Yorkâs delegation in the House is likely to shrink from 29 to 27 seats after the 2010 Census, an analysis projects.
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WASHINGTON - The House passed a bill Thursday that would prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on whether the words "under God" should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance.    In a politically and emotionally charged debate, Democrats said majority Republicans in the chamber were debasing the Constitution in order to force a vote that could hurt Democrats in the election...
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President Bush had planned to push during the current lame-duck session of Congress for the confirmation of John R. Bolton. But todayÂs announcement suggests that the White House realized it was not going to receive the votes.
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Dissatisfied with Congress, voters would probably hang a "Help Wanted" sign on the U.S. Capitol if given the chance.
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Tomorrow is Election Day. There are three possible outcomes. Bush wins. Kerry wins. Or the election is drawn out in legal challenges as it was in 2000.
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The prospect of another close U.S. presidential election has focused new attention on the Electoral College, which actually chooses the winner, but the renewed calls for change are likely to fail as they have hundreds of times in the past.
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WASHINGTON - The House followed the Senate in decisively rejecting a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, ending for this year debate on what has become the dominant issue for the Republican Party's conservative base.    The 227-186 vote in the House Thursday was well short of the two-thirds majority needed to advance a constitutional amendment, but fulfilled a promise by backers to get lawmakers on the record on the highly sensitive issue in the run-up to Election Day...
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The House voted yesterday to allow Vice President Cheney to keep his house, entertainment budget and sundry other entertainments, when a measure to withhold the money to pay for them failed.
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The electoral college has produced controversial decisions six times in the history of the United States.      Such election results produce calls for changes to     the Constitution.  Amending the Constitution is     a difficult and complicated process. Only 27 Amendments have passed in over     200 years.     Here are some changes that can be made to the system without amending the Constitution.
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House Democrats may not have won a big enough majority Tuesday night to run the chamber without help from Republicans, but their victories may have ended a historic co-speakership.
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What if nobody really controls Congress after the Nov. 7 election? It could happen. Look at anybodyÃ¢ÂÂs math on possible outcomes for the congressional campaigns, and you can see a real chance that either party winds up with such a thin margin of victory that nothing significant gets done for the remainder of President BushÃ¢ÂÂs second and last term in office.
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Rejected by voters and limping off stage, the Republican-led House on Friday passed a sweeping bill reviving expired tax breaks and preventing doctors from taking a big cut in Medicare payments.
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Having lost five of the past seven presidential elections, the Democrats have to decide whether to reinvent their party and who should lead it forward
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Some unusual events involving the Electoral College: