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US Curators have started posts on legislation being considered by Congress to address important issues facing the US. These issues fall into 16 categories: 

• Within each category, our curators have identified three of the most pressing issues being addressed by Congress as well as other issues related to the category. The first post in each category is a summary of all the specific posts in the category.
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US Democracy is a representative democracy, meaning that the people choose their government officials. These officials represent the citizens’ ideas and concerns in government. This is different from a direct democracy, where citizens vote directly on every issue.

• There are many issues related to US Democracy that Congress is looking to address with legislation. In the ‘About’ section of this post is an overview of the issues and potential solutions, party positions, and web links. Other sections have information on relevant committees, chairs, & caucuses; departments & agencies; and the judiciary, nonpartisan & partisan organizations, and a wikipedia entry.
• The US Democracy category has related posts and three posts on issues of particular focus: Voting Rights, Money in Politics, and Partisan Polarization..

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Johns Hopkins University is Democracy onAir’s most recent Champion of Democracy in the US and globally.  JHU has as many quality educational, research, and service programs helping to support local, state, and federal democracies as any university in the world. These programs will be further enhanced by the new JHU School of Government and Policy that will bring together programs throughout the university to pursue evidence-based solutions to society’s greatest challenges.

Some specifically democracy-enhancing programs include:

• The NSF Agora Institute in the Homewood campus in Baltimore “strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue.”
• Special events like the annual Democracy Day offering students an introduction to the democratic process and the ways they can engage with it and the Democracy and Freedom Festival a series of events aimed at educating citizens about the importance of democracy and its essential role in advancing freedom, justice, and equality for all.

For more information, see the JHU slide show and the experimental Agora Custom Hub.

The 119th United States Congress is the current term of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It convened on January 3, 2025, during the final 17 days of Joe Biden‘s presidency, and will end in 2027. It will meet during the first two years of Donald Trump‘s second presidency.

Following the 2024 elections, the Republican Party retained its slim majority in the House, won the majority in the Senate, and upon Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, 2025, will have an overall federal government trifecta for the first time since the 115th Congress in 2017, which was in session during Trump’s first term.

The 119th Congress features the slimmest majority in the House for any party since the 72nd Congress in 1931, and the first openly transgender member of Congress in history (Representative Sarah McBride of Delaware).[1][2]

Source: Wikipedia

The 119th United States Congress is the current term of the legislative branch of the United States federal government.  It convened on January 3, 2025, during the final 17 days of Joe Biden’s presidency, and will end in 2027. It will meet during the first two years of Donald Trump’s second presidency.

Following the 2024 elections, the Republican Party won the majority in the Senate with 53 Republicans winning their races and 47 Democrats winning their races. See this slider of posts on the new leaders of the Republican senators and this slider of post on the leaders of the  Democratic senators.  To view all the Republican senators,  go this slider of their posts and to view all the Democratic senators,  go this slider of their posts. All the senators can be found in this slider organized alphabetically by state name.

There are a number of USbillionaires who, in addition to investing in businesses that benefit the public in a variety of ways, also take their civic responsibilities seriously in the form of philanthropic giving as well as supporting greater taxation of their income and wealth.

We have identified a number of civic-minded billionaires in the feature image championing the thrival of all Americans. We have started posts on many of these people.

Top Row from left to right: Frank McCourt, Mike Bloomberg, Steve Case, Melinda French Gates, MacKenzie Scott, and Mark Cuban
Center Row: Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Patrick Collison, Ray Dalio, and Oprah Winfrey
Bottom Row: Pricilla Chan, Mark Benioff, Pierre Omidyar, Eli Broad, Chris Hughes, and Eric Schmidt

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