There have been 11 specials election held during the current session of Congress, and potentially five more remain. Of the 16 House vacancies created since the beginning of this 117th Congress, a half-dozen of which occurring because the incumbent member passed away.

Democratic spin masters and sympathetic analysts are claiming that the abortion issue made Tuesday’s MN-1 special election result closer than it should have been, but such statements suggest they have not studied the region’s past congressional voting trends.

The University of Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center conducted a poll of Tuesday’s Republican congressional primary (7/25-8/6; 562 WY-AL likely Republican primary voters; live interview) and sees GOP attorney Harriet Hageman leading US Rep. Liz Cheney* (R-Wilson/Jackson) by a whopping 57-28% count as the candidates wrap up their final campaign activities during the weekend.

Twenty-three out of 166 USDOT RAISE grant-awarded projects included either local hire goals, government mandated project labor agreements, and/or registered apprenticeship programs, in line with the Administration’s policies.

Inflation Reduction Act ties—for the first time—labor mandates as a condition for receiving tax incentives spurring private construction projects.

Check out these political snippets on primary results, congressional and gubernatorial races from across the country.

Check out these political snippets on congressional and gubernatorial races from across the country.

The July primary respite is drawing to a close. Five states will nominate their general election candidates on Tuesday, and several important races will be decided.

Iowa Districts 1, 2 & 3 were cast as toss-up seats in the 2021 redistricting plan, and the most recent polling suggests that each electorate is performing as projected. 

Of all the US Senate nomination battles around the country in this election cycle, none has been polled more often than the Arizona Republican US Senate primary. Since early May of 2021, a total of 29 publicly released polls have been conducted, with the latest again detecting a lead change.

Now that the second quarter 2022 financial disclosure reports are public, we can research the available data to detect patterns.

Why $39B in federal funding for the construction of semiconductor manufacturing plants will help lift all contractors—building or transportation, public and private. 

AGC needs your help to understand the availability of domestically produced construction materials and how new changes to Buy America could impact your future bids and jobs.  

With Senator Machin agreeing to a $700B+ bill, AGC’s got a first take on what matters for the construction industry.

OSHA’s top officials earnestly engage with AGC contractors to understand the real-world impacts of the agency’s heat hazards National Emphasis Program, including the 80-degree trigger, reduced worker hours to allow for acclimatization, and body temperature and heart rate monitoring. 

Check out these political snippets on primary results, congressional and gubernatorial races from across the country.

It appears the late June Quinnipiac University poll (6/23-27; 1,497 GA registered voters; live interview) giving Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) a ten point, 54-44%, lead over Republican former NFL and college football player Herschel Walker is an outlier. Previous and subsequent polls have put forth differing conclusions.

Now that national redistricting is set for at least the 2022 election, we see that the two most important states for the respective major political parties are Illinois for the Democrats and Florida for the GOP.

After retired Navy SEAL Eric Greitens scored an upset win in the 2016 Missouri Governor’s race, he looked like a man with a potentially unlimited political future.