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Congress is a United States legislature consisting of the Senate (upper house) and the House of Representatives (lower house).
History
2024
Republicans win 220 seats in House, Democrats 215
In December 2024, the Republican Party of the United States won 220 seats in the House of Representatives, taking a majority, and the Democrats - 215 seats.
The richest among members of the US Congress were the descendants of slave owners
Members of the U.S. Congress whose ancestors owned 16 or more slaves are on average five times richer than lawmakers whose ancestors had no slaves (even considering factors such as age, gender, race, ethnicity and education).
In 2023, Reuters released a series of investigations that collected data on slave-owning ancestors of all 535 members of the US Congress as of April 15, 2021.
To improve understanding of the possible modern effects of slavery in the U.S., the authors of the new study collated information from this report with lawmakers' open tax returns in 2024.
The researchers stress that lawmakers are not personally responsible for the actions of their ancestors. However, the findings suggest that slave practices of the past in the US may continue to have an impact on modern society.
2023
Republican Mike Johnson elected House Speaker
On October 25, 2023, fellow Republican Mike Donald Trump Johnson was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. USA
Republican Kevin McCarthy is ousted as House speaker. First case in history
On October 3, 2023, Republican Kevin McCarthy was removed from the post of Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress, USA follows from the voting results.
He became the first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to be removed from office.
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chief Robert Menendez arrested on suspicion of corruption
In September 2023, the head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US Congress, Robert Menendez, was arrested in the United States on suspicion of corruption: during searches, large sums of cash and gold bars were found in his possession.
Robert Menendez and his wife are accused of "corrupt ties" to three New Jersey businessmen. According to the indictment, Menendez and his wife received "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in bribes in exchange for using their "power and influence as a senator" to enrich three entrepreneurs Will Khan, Jose Urib and Fred Daybe. The document also mentions that they could act in the interests of Egypt, and the senator gave them "sensitive government information."
Menendez took bribes in cash, gold, mortgage payments, luxury cars and other valuable items.
It is noteworthy that similar accusations against him sounded already in 2015, but in 2018 the jury "could not" reach a verdict.
Menendez is the author of an anti-Russian bill, which he called "the mother of all sanctions." He takes a hawkish stance on Ukraine conflict
He actively defended the interests of the Armenian lobby - recently the senator presented a bill on military assistance to Yerevan and sanctions against Baku. The politician was an ardent opponent of the supply of F-16 fighters to Turkey, but he also held a pro-Armenian position. In particular, in 2021, Menendez introduced amendments against Azerbaijan, and literally the day before the arrest - the law on financial support for the population of Artsakh.
Proportion of women in Parliament - 28.8%
"The Russians are dying. We've never spent money so well before "- Sen. Graham
"The Russians are dying. We have never spent money so well, "Senator American Lindsey Graham said smiling in May 2023. Ukrainian President Zelensky replied: "Thank you very much."
Republican Kevin McCarthy elected speaker in House
House Republican leader Kevin USA McCarthy was elected its speaker on the 15th ballot in January 2023.
2022
Republican congressman Georges Santos cheated that he was allegedly gay, Jewish and worked in investment banks
Republican Congressman Georges Santos said on the campaign trail that he is the son of Brazilian immigrants with Jewish roots. He is supposedly the first openly gay man to win a Republican election and worked for the biggest investment banks - Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. He claimed that he managed a family fund for $80 million, and also organized a charity fund to help animals.
But journalists in December 2022 found out that Santos' university and places of work are fictional, his investment fund does not exist, and the only charity event was a party with an entrance for $50, after which the congressman went to tax breaks. Animals did not receive money from this.
Santos is Catholic but formally identifies as Jewish with the consent of fellow Republicans. Also, perhaps he is not gay - nothing is known about the man whom he called her husband. But he was married to a woman for 7 years. Among other things, he turned out to be a debtor, he has a lot of debts and courts, he did not pay rent for housing and received an article in Brazil for stealing someone else's checkbook.
97 US senators and their families involved in insider trading
97 US senators and their families are involved in insider trading, the New York Times found out in September 2022. In total, journalists counted about 3.7 thousand transactions with a potential conflict of interest.
For example, the wife of a California politician sold shares Boeing the day before her husband published a bad report on the company's aircraft. Boeing shares fell heavily the next day. And Nancy Pelosi's husband bought stock options in early July - Nvidia just a couple of days before his wife's nomination for the Chip Act project, on which Nvidia shares rose 5%.
2021: Protesters against the results of the presidential elections seized the Senate building
1969: Senator Ted Kennedy falls off bridge and loses chance of US president
The Chappaquiddick incident occurred on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts around midnight between July 18 and 19, 1969, when Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy carelessly drove his car off a narrow bridge, causing it to topple into a pond. As a result, his 28-year-old passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, who was trapped inside the car, drowned.
Kennedy was the younger brother of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
A judicial inquiry on January 5, 1970 concluded that Kennedy deliberately turned toward the bridge, driving his vehicle casually, if not recklessly, at too high a speed for the danger posed by the bridge in the dark. The judge would not recommend charges, and a grand jury did not issue indictments on April 6, 1970. On May 27, 1970, a Motor Vehicle Register hearing resulted in Kennedy's driver's license being suspended for a total of sixteen months after the accident.
The Chappaquiddick incident became national news that influenced Kennedy's decision not to run for president in 1972 and 1976, and was said to have undermined his chances of ever becoming president. Ultimately, Kennedy decided to take part in the 1980 Democratic presidential primaries, but won only 37.6% of the vote and lost the nomination to the current president Jimmy Carter.
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