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To: Fiji Hill

Sounds good, but the senate isn’t up for reelection 2022


70 posted on 07/04/2021 4:10:31 PM PDT by roving
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To: roving

Article I, section 3 of the Constitution requires the Senate to be divided into three classes for purposes of elections. Senators are elected to six-year terms, and every two years the members of one class—approximately one-third of the senators—face election or reelection.

So every six years 1/3 of the senate

2022 - 14 Republicans\20 Democrats

https://www.dailypress.senate.gov/?page_id=25246


73 posted on 07/04/2021 4:19:56 PM PDT by Reily
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To: roving
Sounds good, but the senate isn’t up for reelection 2022

34 Senate seats are will be voted on next year. But even if the GOP holds all of 20 of its seats and takes all 14 Democrat seats, it will still be two seats shy of a super-majority.

87 posted on 07/04/2021 4:43:46 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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