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July 2, 2009 Trending on OpenCongress
Unsurprisingly the recently voted upon Cap and Trade bill has been dominating the discourse and attention of OpenCongress users this past week. Behind all that action, however, users have kept on voting on bills, members and issue areas via our Battle Royal function. Here are some highlights of those trending bills, which we didn’t want to slip by, unnoticed.
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John Ensign is one of the most-viewed Senators.
On June 16, 2009, Senator John Ensign (R, NV) admitted to having had an extramarital affair in 2008 with a campaign staffer whose husband was a member of his Senate staff. The following day, Ensign gave up his leadership position Chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. The Senate Ethics Committee may launch an inquiry into employment-related issues involved in the senator's affair.
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Rep. John McHugh [R, NY-23] was appointed by President Obama to the position of United States Secretary of the Army on June 2nd. McHugh is expected to be confirmed later in the summer, which means that a special election to fill his seat will take place in the fall. McHugh, a Republican, has held the 23rd district since his initial election in 1992, but the district voted 52 percent for Obama in 2008, and it is considered a possible pick-up spot in the House for the Democrats.
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H.J.Res.5
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
introduced Jan. 05, 2009
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H.R.2454 American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009
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H.R.2996 Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agenc...
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H.Res.587 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2454) to cr...
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Ayes: 217 Nays: 205 Jun 26, 2009
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