The first 2024 Senate retirement decision was made public yesterday as four-term Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow of Michigan announced that she will not be a candidate for re-election next year.

Cornhusker State Gov-Elect Jim Pillen (R) will be sworn into office later today, meaning he will soon announce his choice to replace resigning Sen. Ben Sasse (R).

The 118th Congress is due to be sworn in, and like all others, this new assemblage is a unique group.

Check out these political snippets on the presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, state and local races from across the country. 

During the past decade, no state has been forced to draw more redistricting maps than the Tar Heel State of North Carolina.

The Open Secrets research organization released their spending report for the just-ended 2022 election cycle, and the total midterm campaign expenditures reached an aggregate total of over $8.9 billion, including all candidates and outside organizations.

Clearly preparing for a re-election campaign while her standing before the Democratic Party electorate is poor, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced that she is leaving her party and will represent Arizona as an Independent. 

AGC of America filed comments with the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) on Dec. 7 in response to the agency’s proposed rule to revise the standard for determining joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”).

AGC recently submitted comments on the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division’s (WHD) proposed rule to establish a new test for determining who is an independent contractor versus an employee under the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

On December 12, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) announced the availability of 64,716 H-2B visas for the entirety fiscal year 2023.

Congress is expected to pass a stopgap spending bill to fund the federal government through Dec. 23, as current funding expires on Dec. 16.

Check out these political snippets on the presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, state and local races from across the country. 

The new Congress has not yet convened, and already we are seeing potentially five vacancies occurring in the Senate and House.

The announcement from several Republicans saying they will not vote for Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy* (R-CA) in the election for Speaker of the House even after he was overwhelmingly chosen the party nominee for the position makes the mathematics of his achieving a majority vote a bit tricky.

As had been speculated upon, Indiana Sen. Mike Braun (R) yesterday filed a campaign committee with the Secretary of State’s office in Indianapolis, which is his first step toward foregoing re-election to a second term in the US Senate in order to become an open seat gubernatorial candidate

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

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

At this point, the House majority is still undetermined and according to the CNN Elections Results page, 26 contests remain uncalled. Their defined partisan division count shows 211 Republicans and 198 Democrats.

The first of a four-part political trip around the country to briefly touches upon the outlook for all 50 states. We begin with the west. 

The second our second of four installments covering the political preview in all 50 states. This edition looks at the country’s central region.