Sentence examples for sitting congress from inspiring English sources

There was a race in 1827 in Kentucky in which the death of a sitting Congress member spurred a special election between Thomas Chilton and John Calhoon.

Figueiredo's troops surrounded the sitting Congress, and managed - just - to prevent the opposition from gaining the two-thirds majority required to pass the measure into law.

It bars a sitting Congress from raising its own pay and was approved only after Gregory Watson, a sophomore at the University of Texas, discovered in the 1980s that it was still out there.

It is unlikely that any future Congress will have a stronger political will in terms of reforming Obamacare entitlements than the sitting Congress – thus it is unlikely that the expansion repeal will ever be implemented in reality. .

Three of the GOP White House hopefuls are sitting House members — Reps.

Mirabella is the only sitting Liberal MP to lose their seat in the election.

Since then, only two sitting House members have been vice presidential candidates.

Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C). became the first sitting House member to lose in a primary this year.

Fierravanti-Wells is the only sitting NSW Liberal senator up for re-election this year.

Only one sitting Supreme Court justice — Samuel Chase — was impeached, on charges of being too partisan in 1805.

Crowley is the first sitting Democratic House member to lose renomination since 2016.