Last week, Democratic Reps. David Price (D-NC) and Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced they are not seeking re-election in 2022.

The 3rd Quarter campaign finance summaries and reports are now publicly available at the Federal Election Commission website, and we have the recap for the key competitive Senate races in this Update. 

On October 19, AGC met with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to share a host of concerns about the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) draft emergency temporary standard (ETS).

In a video to his supporters and beginning with the phrase “it's been an incredible journey since my first campaign in 2006 until now…,” Kentucky US Representative John Yarmuth (D-Louisville), the chairman of the House Budget Committee, announced earlier this week that he will not seek a 9th term in Congress next year.

As we know, ten House Republicans voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump over the January 6th US Capitol controversy and now it appears that the nine running for re-election are currently facing a bumpy political road.

We’re beginning to see preliminary congressional redistricting plans appear around the country, and it seems both parties are attempting to draw maps to their maximum political advantage where possible.

Listed below are political snippets on congressional, gubernatorial and local races the country. Enjoy!

With misinformation in the public sphere about the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill (formerly titled the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act), AGC has produced a myth versus fact document—click HERE—to help correct the record.

On October 2, after two delayed votes in the House on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Congress agreed to a short-term, 30-day extension of surface transportation programs that expired on October 1.

On Sept. 24, the Safer Federal Workplace Task Force issued guidance on the president’s executive order calling for a broad vaccination mandate for direct federal contractors.

In CA-37 reports were surfacing last week that California Rep. Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles), who had been on candidate Joe Biden’s short list for the Vice Presidential nomination, was deciding whether to eschew re-election next year for a chance to run for LA Mayor.

Saying he “…has a lot more to do for Iowa,” seven-term Senator Chuck Grassley (R) on Friday announced that he will run for an eighth term next year.

The Texas congressional map was unveiled in the state Senate last week, and already many incumbents and challengers are making or announcing political plans based upon what they are seeing…but this congressional plan is a long way from enactment.

Listed below are political snippets on congressional, gubernatorial and local races the country. Enjoy!

On September 18, AGC put forth a bevy of concerns for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to consider as the agency works on regulations requiring all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is either fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or mandate that any workers who remain unvaccinated produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis.

On September 8, House Democrats released legislative text detailing their labor priorities under consideration for inclusion in a $3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill.

Listed below are political snippets on congressional and gubernatorial races the country. Enjoy!

Unconfirmed stories from Democratic sources are flying around the Internet suggesting that the Tennessee Republican state legislative leadership is in the process of drawing a new congressional map that would shred Rep. Jim Cooper’s (D-Nashville) seat and convert the current 7R-2D map into 8R-1D.

The St. Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics poll was released at the of August (8/24-26; 1,855 NH registered voters; online; weighted responses), and it contains good news for three-term Granite State Governor Chris Sununu (R).

After a round of public redistricting hearings, the staff for the Colorado Independent Redistricting Commission released the second iteration of the state’s new 8-seat congressional map.