KAWARTHA LAKES-On January 1, 2001 the municipalities of Victoria County were amalgamated into the City of Kawartha Lakes by ...

When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare majority, 218 votes, to pass a bill. In practical terms, a majority party needs well over 218 seats to ...

Nixon in 1968. And though Trump won the popular vote, he did not secure a majority, coming just shy with 49.9 percent of the vote, according to certified state results compiled by the Associated ...

The Joint Committee of Parliament scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Wednesday adopted its draft report and the amended version of the proposed law with a majority vote, JPC chairperson ...

The European Union supports majority voting for a global plastics treaty while suggesting it would rather walk away from a bad deal than agree to a treaty it sees as too weak. At a Jan. 22 ...

Though the GOP secured historic victories on the presidential and senatorial levels and obtained one of its widest aggregate House popular-vote margins ... their narrowest majority in almost ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., showed frustration with Democrats on Tuesday after a confirmation vote for President Trump's pick for CIA director in John Ratcliffe, who has bipartisan ...

Needed to win Needed to win Notes: Confirmation requires a simple majority of voting senators. The Ohio Senate seat previously held by Vice President JD Vance is vacant. Ahead of his confirmation ...

Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to serve as director of national intelligence, cleared a procedural vote Tuesday ... ability to garner the majority vote she needs ...

A recent New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports.

"I thank all the citizens of Kosovo who voted so far and encourage everybody to vote," said Kurti as voting ... between Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority and its Serb minority in the run-up ...

In 1831, New York U.S. Rep. Churchill Cambreleng referred to those who refused to vote on a Congressional bill as “the silent majority.” The term was later used by Richard Nixon in October ...