We have seen quite a few recent US Senate moves that help set the picture for a very competitive 2022 election cycle that will almost certainly break the current 50-50 chamber tie. Below is a recap of the action:

On June 23, a bipartisan group of senators announced an agreement on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure framework with the White House.

We close the week looking at conflicting polls from two Midwestern statewide races.

As expected, former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and ex-New Jersey state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli won their respective Democratic and Republican primaries for Governor on Tuesday in the two states holding major 2021 elections.

Listed below are political snippets on congressional, gubernatorial, state and city-wide races across the country. Enjoy!

A new statewide political survey suggests that Sen. Lisa Murkowski* (R) is in serious danger of losing her coming re-election campaign. 

On May 17, nearly 100 members of the U.S. House of Representatives—at AGC’s urging—called on U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to negotiate a softwood lumber trade agreement with Canada.

On May 28, the President Biden’s National Economic Council sought consultation from AGC Chief Economist Ken Simonson on construction supply chain issues, materials price increases and their impacts.

Listed below are political snippets on congressional, gubernatorial, state and city-wide races across the country. Enjoy!

Two weeks ago, a story from the Axios news site reported that Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Winter Park) had made the decision to challenge Sen. Marco Rubio (R), and that Rep. Val Demings (D-Orlando) would run for Governor. Those suppositions proved premature to say the least.

The New Mexico and Texas special elections are quickly approaching and the anticipated results are becoming clear. 

Incumbents, candidates, and potential candidates are making political moves in some key upcoming 2022 Senate races, which makes now a good time to review the latest happenings.

On May 10, AGC filed a Freedom of Information Act request in response to SBA’s delayed decision-making process of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans as AGC members report they have already waited many months for SBA to act on forgiveness applications for loans over $2 million.

On May 13, the U.S. Department of Treasury issued an interim final rule (IFR) detailing how the $350 billion in state, local, and territorial government funding provided through the American Rescue Plan Act can be spent.

Listed below are political snippets on congressional, gubernatorial, state and city-wide races across the country. Enjoy!

With the number of House open and vacant seats continuing to grow, we update the status of each and begin to project where the most competitive incumbent-less districts might lie in 2022.

At the end of last week, the Remington Research Group released a survey of the Georgia 2022 Republican gubernatorial primary for their client, former DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer and ex-state Representative Vernon Jones. The results were met with some derision.

The University of California at Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies released another of its periodic polls Tuesday, and while it finds Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) surviving the upcoming recall election it also identifies areas of underlying weakness.

The first quarter Federal Election Commission financial disclosure reports were due from all incumbents and official candidates on April 15th, and the statistical staff from the Daily Kos Elections website, as they typically do, tallied and organized all the monetary results.

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