Sentence examples for contested house from inspiring English sources
Another hotly contested House proposal involves the elimination of the student loan interest deduction, which lets people repaying their student loans reduce their tax burden by as much as $2,500.
The Texas Democratic congressional nominee Gina Ortiz Jones will make history on two fronts if she wins a hotly contested House seat in November: as the first openly lesbian Iraq war veteran and first Filipina-American to represent the state in the US House.
The other remaining contested House race is the contest to represent the 28th District in the Fredericksburg area.
Topping the list of states hit with anti-health law ads was Pennsylvania, which in the 2010 cycle had multiple contested House races and the close-fought Senate contest between Republican Pat Toomey and Democrat Joe Sestak.
Another troubling sign for Democrats is that many of the most hotly contested House seats are in districts with small percentages of black voters.
Contested House races in California have been toppling in the Democrats' direction ever since.
On Wednesday, the Court of Cassation announced the final results: it confirmed that Mr. Prodi had won the more contested lower house of Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, by 24,755 votes, 469 fewer than last week's results.
Republicans held on to a contested Arizona House seat in Tuesday's special election, sparing the party yet another humiliating defeat in once-safe GOP territory.
That means most of the midterm action is taking place in contested, Republican-held House districts and a couple of swing states, such as Florida and Nevada, where Trump's rhetoric has wedged members of his party into a most uncomfortable position — between his own high popularity among Republicans on one hand and swing voters opposed to his bellicosity on trade and immigration on the other.
That amounts to a total of 491 seats contested in both houses.
In the increasingly contested ground of housing policy, Osborne is proposing to order local councils to pre-approve planning permissions on 90% of suitable brownfield land by 2020.
