Word: minimum
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During the first 100 hours of the new House, Pelosi has pledged, according to Newsweek, to “drain the swamp” of GOP muck by enacting all of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations (why weren’t they enacted earlier?), raising the minimum wage, and promoting stem cell research...
...Democrats scored early in the evening by taking away the governors' mansions in Massachusetts, Ohio and New York and then rolled up a 15-seat gain - at a minimum - with wins in traditionally G.O.P. districts in Indiana, Kentucky, Connecticut, Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Other Republicans looked certain to fall as the tabulations continued through the night. As a result, Democrats will control a majority of seats in the House - and in America's governors' mansions - for the first time since...
...party fund. The Finance Committee, which oversees the party fund, is handing out $1700 of student money each weekend, and it must step up and ensure that all the money it distributes does indeed fund parties. To that end, grant recipients should be required to show, at the minimum, reasonable receipts before being reimbursed. But receipts can be faked. The UC also needs to verify that all funded parties are actually taking place. A member of the UC should stop by each host suite during its event and check that it is a legitimate open party. Between the 35-plus...
Most preliminary counts show 60-year-old Daniel Ortega, who served as the Nicaraguan president from 1985 to 1990, as having already won 40 percent—the minimum a candidate needs to win an election in one round. If those counts are verified by electoral officials, Montealegre will not have the chance to challenge Ortega in a second round...
...having gubernatorial elections. Of those, Republicans are defending 22 statehouses; Democrats are trying to hold onto 14. Turnout in many states is also being driven by hot-button ballot initiatives. Where bans on gay marriage helped bring out Republican voters in the last few cycles, initiatives on the minimum wage and on stem-cell research could have the opposite effect this time...