trem 2 padlet by Evan Longval https://padlet.com/evanlongval/nkyjprscot58hjzz en-us 2020-11-18 17:19:10 UTC 2025-10-19 19:30:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/2620.png exit poll evanlongval https://padlet.com/evanlongval/nkyjprscot58hjzz/wish/937819613 An election exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. A similar poll conducted before actual voters have voted is called an entrance poll. Pollsters – usually private companies working for newspapers or broadcasters – conduct exit polls to gain an early indication as to how an election has turned out, as in many elections the actual result may take hours or even months to count.

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The FDA's primary focus is the enforcement of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C), but the agency also enforces other laws, notably Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act, as well as associated regulations. Much of this regulatory-enforcement work is not directly related to food or drugs but involves such things as regulating lasers, cellular phones, and condoms, as well as control of disease in contexts varying from household pets to human sperm donated for use in assisted reproduction.]]> 2020-12-02 19:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/evanlongval/nkyjprscot58hjzz/wish/981438058 civil body politic evanlongval https://padlet.com/evanlongval/nkyjprscot58hjzz/wish/1002986489 The 102 passengers on the Mayflower were divided into two groups. Only 41 of them were Pilgrims--religious dissenters called Separatists, who had fled England for Holland. Now they sought a new life in America where they could practice their religion in the manner they chose. The rest of the passengers, called "strangers" by the Pilgrims, included merchants, craftsmen, skilled workers and indentured servants, and several young orphans. All were common people. About one-third of them were children.
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The Pilgrims had organized the voyage. William Brewster and the other Pilgrim leaders had secured the right to settle on land claimed by the Virginia Company near the mouth of the Hudson River. To raise money for the voyage the Pilgrims signed a contract with a group of London stockholders. In return the stockholders would share in the profits of the planned colony. The Pilgrims had rounded up the "strangers" to increase the chances of success for their enterprise.

]]> 2020-12-09 16:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/evanlongval/nkyjprscot58hjzz/wish/1002986489 Senate Majority Leader evanlongval https://padlet.com/evanlongval/nkyjprscot58hjzz/wish/1061538719 ATLANTA — Democrats have won the Senate majority after a remarkable pair of runoff victories in Georgia, giving the party control of Congress and smoothing the path for President-elect Joe Biden to enact the agenda he ran on in 2020.
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Jon Ossoff’s and Raphael Warnock’s victories over Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler will bring the balance of power in the Senate to 50-50, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris able to cast tie-breaking votes once she is inaugurated later this month. The first of those will make Sen. Chuck Schumer the majority leader, relegating current Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to the minority after six years in charge of the Senate.]]> 2021-01-07 00:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/evanlongval/nkyjprscot58hjzz/wish/1061538719 25th Amendment evanlongval https://padlet.com/evanlongval/nkyjprscot58hjzz/wish/1084120768 Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
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Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.]]> 2021-01-13 17:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/evanlongval/nkyjprscot58hjzz/wish/1084120768 Inauguration Day evanlongval https://padlet.com/evanlongval/nkyjprscot58hjzz/wish/1107082088
Many Republican lawmakers are praising President Biden’s speech and his handling of the transition – including the GOP senators whom Biden will need to advance his agenda.

Mitt Romney told reporters that Biden’s speech was “very powerful,” while Sen. Pat Toomey hailed Biden’s call for unity.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowksi said Biden’s remarks were well done and “what we needed.”


Sen. Susan Collins said Biden “struck the right themes of unity, a call for us to come together to stop viewing one another as adversaries but rather as fellow Americans,” and she stands “ready to work with him (Biden) to advance common goals.”


Collins says the Republican party “remains united around certain principles that transcend certain personalities.”



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