Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the governor of Arkansas. The governor's office identifies her as the state's 47th governor, and her official biography says she was inaugurated on January 10, 2023.

The 2026 election

Arkansas held its general election on November 3, 2026, the date set in the Secretary of State's 2026 election calendar. The Arkansas Secretary of State's election results page links to the vote counts under the label "2026 General Election & Judicial Runoff".

Key facts about the governor

All three details come from the governor's official biography.

Who Sarah Huckabee Sanders is

Sanders is the first woman to serve as governor of Arkansas, according to her official biography. Her father, Mike Huckabee, is a former governor of the state.

The biography lists her earlier work in politics and government:

• She was White House press secretary for President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019.
• She joined the Trump campaign as a senior advisor in February 2016.
• She was a senior advisor to Sen. Tom Cotton's 2014 campaign and the campaign manager for Sen. John Boozman's 2010 campaign.
• She worked in the Department of Education under President George W. Bush.

The same page says she grew up in Pine Bluff and Texarkana and graduated from Little Rock Central High and Ouachita Baptist University. She lives in Little Rock with her husband, Bryan, and their three children.

Mike Dunleavy is the governor of Alaska. The governor's office describes him as "Alaska’s 12th Governor". His official biography says he was first elected governor in 2018 and then again in 2022.

When the governor's term begins and ends

The Alaska Constitution sets the schedule in Article III, Section 4: "The term of office of the governor is four years, beginning at noon on the first Monday in December following his election and ending at noon on the first Monday in December four years later."

Dunleavy's biography says his second election was in 2022. Under the constitution's rule, a term that follows a 2022 election ends at noon on the first Monday in December 2026.

The same article limits how long one person can hold the office. Section 5 says, "No person who has been elected governor for two full successive terms shall be again eligible to hold that office until one full term has intervened."

How the governor is chosen

Article III of the constitution says the governor is chosen by the qualified voters of the state at a general election, and that the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes becomes governor. The governor and the lieutenant governor are elected together, because votes cast for a candidate for governor also count for the candidate for lieutenant governor who runs jointly with that candidate.

A governor must be at least 30 years old and a qualified voter of the state. The constitution also requires at least seven years as a resident of Alaska immediately before filing for office and at least seven years as a citizen of the United States.

If the office becomes vacant for any reason, the lieutenant governor succeeds to it for the remainder of the term.

What Dunleavy did before he was governor

The biography says Dunleavy arrived in Alaska in 1983 and that his first job was in a logging camp in Southeast Alaska. He earned a teacher's certificate and a Master of Education degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and he spent nearly two decades in northwest Arctic communities as a teacher, principal and superintendent.

The biography says he and his family moved to Wasilla in 2004. He served on the Mat-Su Borough School Board, including two years as board president, and then as a state senator for five years.

No winner has been certified in the 2026 Alaska race for U.S. Senator. The Alaska Division of Elections lists the status of the November 3, 2026 general election results as unofficial, and it said ranked choice voting results will not be available until November 18, 2026.

In the division's unofficial summary report, Mary Peltola (DEM) has 121,487 first-choice votes, or 48.73 percent, and Dan S. Sullivan (REP) has 117,512, or 47.13 percent. That is a difference of 3,975 votes, and neither candidate has a majority of the first-choice votes counted so far.

The unofficial first-choice count

The summary report is headed "UNOFFICIAL RESULTS" and carries a report time of 5:47:54 p.m. on November 11, 2026. It shows 401 of 401 precincts reported and 249,325 total votes in the race for U.S. Senator. The party labels below are the ones printed in the report, which lists no party for Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.

The division's results page said the summary report "only shows first choice results from Round 1." The page was last updated on November 11, 2026, at 6:34 p.m.

What happens next

Alaska uses ranked choice voting in its general election. The division's results page said: "Ranked Choice Voting results will not be available until 15 days after the election (November 18, 2026) once all eligible ballots are reviewed and counted."

The same page said Alaska law requires tabulation to continue until two candidates remain, unless a candidate achieves a majority in the first round.

The division said election night results stay posted on that page until the results are certified, and certified results are then published in its official results search.

Related questions

For the overall count of seats in each chamber, see which party controls Congress, and for the date the winners take office, see when the new Congress starts.

Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama. The governor's office says she became the 54th Governor of Alabama in 2017. The office was on the ballot in the general election that Alabama held on November 3, 2026, and the unofficial results show Republican Tommy Tuberville ahead of Democrat Doug Jones.

What the 2026 election results for governor show

The Alabama Secretary of State's unofficial election night results for the 2026 general election show Tommy Tuberville with the most votes for governor. The page showed 67 of 67 counties reporting and was last updated on November 4, 2026, at 11:16 a.m.

These numbers are not final. The same page says the election results it presents are unofficial.

How long Kay Ivey has been governor

Ivey was sworn in as the 54th governor on April 10, 2017, according to her official biography. The biography says voters elected her to a full term in November 2018 and that she was sworn in for that term on January 14, 2019. She was reelected to a second full term in November 2022 and was sworn in on January 16, 2023.

What Ivey did before she was governor

The biography says Ivey grew up in Camden, in Wilcox County, Alabama. It says she was elected State Treasurer in 2002 and Lieutenant Governor in 2010. Earlier, she served as Reading Clerk of the Alabama House of Representatives and as Assistant Director of the Alabama Development Office.

Katie Hobbs is the governor of Arizona. The state's official site is titled the Office of the Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, and her official biography lists her as "Arizona's 24th Governor" and says she was sworn in on January 2, 2023.

Katie Hobbs at a glance

All of the facts in this table come from the biography published by the governor's office.

What she did before becoming governor

The biography says Hobbs began her career as a social worker working with homeless youth and later helped run a domestic violence shelter. It lists her as a former chief compliance officer for Sojourner Center and as the first social worker governor.

She was elected to the Arizona House in 2010 and served in the Legislature for four terms, including two as Senate minority leader, according to the same page. In 2018 she was elected secretary of state, and in 2022 she was elected governor. The biography describes her as the fifth woman and the fifth Arizona native to lead the state.

How long a governor's term lasts

The governor's term is four years. Article 5, Section 1 of the Arizona Constitution says the executive department consists of "the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer and superintendent of public instruction, each of whom shall hold office for four years beginning on the first Monday of January, 1971 next after the regular general election in 1970."

The same section says the person with the highest number of votes cast for the office is elected. It also says each nominee for governor names a nominee for lieutenant governor, and the two run on one ticket as joint candidates in the general election, so a single vote for a nominee for governor counts as a vote for that ticket.

Where the governor's office is

The governor's office lists its address as 1700 W. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ 85007. The constitution says the officers of the executive department "shall reside at the seat of government where they shall keep their offices and the public records, books and papers" during their terms, as stated in Article 5, Section 1.

Election results are certified state by state. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission says that "State and local election officials are the authorities on election certification dates." For the general election held on November 3, 2026, California's Secretary of State certifies the statewide result on December 11, 2026, and Washington's Secretary of State has until December 3, 2026.

Certification dates for the November 3, 2026 election

These dates come from the official calendars of the California Secretary of State and the Washington Secretary of State.

California's calendar also lists certificates of election on December 11, 2026, the same day as the statewide certification.

Why election night results are not final

The totals shown on election night are unofficial. The Election Assistance Commission says that results reported on election night are never the final, certified results, and that they are still unofficial even when they show 100 percent of precincts reporting. The commission also says that results reported on election night are not final even though the media may call a projected winner, because only election officials provide official results.

How certification works

Certification follows a review called the canvass. According to the Election Assistance Commission, the canvass aggregates and confirms every valid ballot cast and counted, including mail ballots, ballots from military and overseas voters, early votes, Election Day votes and provisional ballots. During the canvass, officials reconcile the number of ballots cast with the number of voters, so that every valid vote is included in the final results.

Certification is the last step. The commission describes it as election officials attesting that the results are a true and accurate accounting of all votes cast in the election. Depending on the state, the certifying authority can be a single elected official such as the secretary of state or the governor, the state legislature, an appointed election director or a board with several members.

In both California and Washington, the calendars above show counties certifying first and the state certifying afterward.

What can move the date

A recount may affect the timeline for final certification, depending on state law. The Election Assistance Commission gives two examples: New Hampshire law places state certification after the deadline for a recount has expired, and West Virginia counties must certify within 30 days of the election or, if there is a recount, within 30 days of completing it.

For what the results mean in Washington, D.C., see when the new Congress starts and which party controls Congress.

Louisiana's runoff election is on Saturday, December 12, 2026, according to the Louisiana Secretary of State's election dates page. The state does not label it a runoff on its calendar. Louisiana calls the first round of an open election the primary and the run-off between the top two candidates the general election, as the Secretary of State's types of elections page explains.

Dates and deadlines for the December 12 election

Every date below is from the Secretary of State's election dates page, and the dates match the office's 2026 elections calendar.

There is no early voting on Sunday, November 29. The two absentee deadlines do not apply to military and overseas voters, who are listed as exceptions on the same page.

What the state calls this election

The 2026 elections calendar, which is marked as revised in July 2026, lists the December 12 election as an "Open U.S. Representative General/Open General/Special Primary". The special primary is for the 14th State Senatorial District in East Baton Rouge Parish only.

The first round was scheduled for November 3, 2026, which the same calendar lists as a "U.S. Senate General/Open U.S. Representative Primary/Open Primary". On that calendar, December 12 is the general election for U.S. Representative and other open primary offices, while November 3 was already the general election for the U.S. Senate.

How a Louisiana run-off works

In an open primary, any qualified elector may qualify as a candidate regardless of party, according to the Secretary of State's types of elections page. If no candidate wins a majority in the primary, the top two candidates go to a run-off, which the state calls a general election.

The U.S. House races followed that open system in 2026. The calendar notes that under Act 7 of the 2026 Regular Session, U.S. Representative is no longer treated as a closed party office for the November and December election cycle. For the wider picture in Washington, see when the new Congress starts and which party controls Congress.

The calendar also carries a notice that dates are subject to change by the Legislature.

No winner is official yet in the 2026 race for Colorado's 4th Congressional District. The Colorado Secretary of State's results page, which is labeled "Unofficial Results" and marks no winner, shows Democrat Eileen Laubacher with 186,218 votes and Republican Lauren Boebert with 182,856 votes, a gap of 3,362 votes. Those figures were last updated on November 10, 2026, at 8:17 p.m. Mountain time.

The unofficial count

The state results page lists three candidates in the contest for Representative to the 120th United States Congress, District 4, from the general election held on November 3, 2026. The party labels below are the ones the page uses.

The page counts 381,689 votes in the contest. The totals can still change, because counties upload updated results after election night.

Why there is no official winner yet

The Secretary of State's election night reporting FAQ states that election results in ENR are unofficial. The reporting site does not count votes itself. It displays the results that counties upload after they tabulate ballots.

Results become official county by county. The same FAQ says a county's results are marked official after its canvass board certifies them, which happens on or before the 22nd day after election day. The state's list of county statuses adds that all counties must provide substantially complete results by the 9th day after election day, and that a county which has finished counting is still not official until its canvass board certifies.

Who holds the seat now

Lauren Boebert is the current representative for the district. The Clerk of the House lists her as a Republican representing Colorado's 4th Congressional District in the 119th Congress, sworn in on January 3, 2025. The contest on the ballot is for a seat in the 120th Congress, and separate pages cover when the new Congress starts and which party controls Congress.

Georgia's general election runoff, if one is needed, is on Tuesday, December 1, 2026, and polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The state's election guide lists the same date as the runoff for the general election held on November 3, 2026.

Runoff dates and deadlines

The registration deadline has passed, so a person who was not registered by November 2 cannot register in time for this runoff.

When a runoff is held

The state's runoff page says a runoff is held when no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the general election. In that case the top two finishers advance to the runoff. The page does not name the contests that will be decided on December 1.

How to vote in the runoff

• Early, in person. The state's early voting page describes November 23 to November 25 as "a very short early voting window, abbreviated due to the Thanksgiving holiday." A voter can use any early voting location in the county where the voter lives.
• By mail. An absentee ballot must be requested from the county registrar by November 20, and the completed and signed ballot must be received by 7 p.m. on December 1 to be counted.
• On election day. Registered voters cast a ballot at their assigned precinct on December 1 and need a valid photo ID. A voter who is in line by 7 p.m. is allowed to vote.

Department of Homeland Security v. D. V. D., No. 26-426, is a Supreme Court case about whether the federal government's guidance on third-country removals is lawful, and the Court's docket shows it is set for argument on Wednesday, December 9, 2026. The court of appeals opinion under review uses "third-country removals" for removals of noncitizens with final removal orders to countries that were neither designated in those orders nor identified in writing during their earlier removal proceedings.

What the Court will decide

The Court's question presented document reproduces the order of September 29, 2026, which directed the parties to brief and argue:

1. "Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents’ claims."
2. "Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f)(1)."
3. "Whether the Government’s Guidance on third-country removals is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations."
4. "Such other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case."

The government said in its opening brief that it had determined that no additional questions warrant briefing, which leaves the first three.

Key dates

The dates below are from the docket.

The Court's calendar for the session beginning November 30, 2026 lists the case first on Wednesday, December 9, and says the Court convenes at 10 a.m. The other arguments scheduled so far are in What cases is the Supreme Court hearing this term?

How the case reached the Court

The First Circuit opinion of September 18, 2026, which begins at page 99a of the appendix to the stay application, says the Department of Homeland Security appealed a final judgment in favor of a class of noncitizens with final removal orders who face third-country removals under department policy documents issued in March and July of 2025. The opinion calls those documents "the Guidance."

According to that opinion, the district court's judgment contained five declarations and also vacated and set aside the Guidance as unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act. The declarations construed the law to require the department to seek first to remove class members to countries they had designated or of which they are subjects, nationals or citizens, to give class members effective notice of the third country, and to give them a meaningful opportunity to contest removal there on the ground of a reasonable fear of persecution or torture.

The court of appeals held that the representative plaintiffs lacked standing for the first of those requirements and vacated the two declarations about it. "Otherwise, we affirm the judgment," the opinion says.

The government then applied to the Supreme Court for a stay. The docket shows that on September 29, 2026, the Court granted the application, stayed the February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, treated the application as a petition for a writ of certiorari and granted it. The order directed the Clerk to set a briefing schedule that would allow argument in the December 2026 session, and it says the stay ends when the Court sends down its judgment. The docket entry records that Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan and Justice Jackson would have denied the application for a stay.

What each side says

The government's opening brief, filed October 23, 2026, makes three arguments in the order of the Court's questions. It says the district court lacked jurisdiction over the respondents' claims under 8 U.S.C. 1252(g), 8 U.S.C. 1252(b)(9) and provisions that limit review of claims under the Convention Against Torture. It says 8 U.S.C. 1252(f)(1) bars the classwide declaratory relief and the vacatur. And it says the Guidance is lawful because neither Section 1231 nor FARRA sets out specific procedures for third-country removals, and that the Guidance comports with due process.

The respondents' merits brief is not due until November 16, so their position on the record so far is in their September 28 response to the stay application. There they said the final judgment did not include injunctive relief, so Section 1252(f)(1) does not apply, and that the jurisdictional provisions the government cites do not bar review because the plaintiffs do not challenge their removal orders or any discretionary decision to execute them. They said the policy cannot be reconciled with 8 U.S.C. 1231(b), FARRA and their implementing regulations, and that it permits removal to a newly selected third country "without meaningful notice of the destination or a meaningful opportunity to raise a country-specific fear claim."

This page will be updated at this address when the respondents' brief is filed and after the argument on December 9.

Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, No. 25-1017, is a Supreme Court case that asks whether the National Voter Registration Act bars two Arizona voter registration rules, according to the Court's question presented document. One rule requires people who register with the state form to show proof of U.S. citizenship. The other cancels the registrations of people found not to be citizens, including in the 90 days before a federal election. The Court's docket shows the petition was granted on June 29, 2026, and the case was set for argument on Tuesday, December 8, 2026.

The two questions before the Court

The question presented document lists two questions, in these words:

1. "Does the National Voter Registration Act or a federal consent decree prohibit Arizona from requiring voter-registration applicants to produce "satisfactory evidence" of U.S. citizenship when registering with a state registration form?"
2. "Does the National Voter Registration Act prohibit Arizona from implementing a program within 90 days of a federal election to cancel the registrations of voters who are not U.S. citizens?"

The same document says the Ninth Circuit held that the act preempts the Arizona provisions at issue, and that Arizona cannot require proof of citizenship from registration applicants because a previous Arizona Secretary of State entered a consent decree with private litigants in 2018. It also says the Supreme Court has granted an emergency stay on each issue, one in this case and one in a Fourth Circuit case.

What the Ninth Circuit decided

The case reached the Supreme Court from the Ninth Circuit, where it was titled Mi Familia Vota v. Petersen. The opinion was filed on February 25, 2025, by a panel of Judges Wardlaw, Gould and Bumatay. Judge Gould wrote the opinion and Judge Bumatay dissented.

The summary that court staff prepared for that opinion, which states that it is not part of the opinion, describes a challenge to two Arizona laws, H.B. 2492 and H.B. 2243. It says the challenge was brought by the United States, several nonprofits, the Democratic National Committee, the Arizona Democratic Party and three federally recognized Tribes. On the points now before the Supreme Court, the summary says the panel held:

• The requirement that county recorders reject state-form applications that lack documentary proof of citizenship violates the consent decree in League of United Latin American Citizens of Arizona v. Reagan.
• In the alternative, the National Voter Registration Act does not let states require documentary proof of citizenship from state-form applicants registering for only federal elections.
• The periodic cancellation of registrations violates the act's 90-day provision to the extent that H.B. 2243 authorizes systematic cancellation of registrations within 90 days before a federal election.

The summary says Judge Bumatay, in dissent, stated that most of the voter-verification laws are consistent with the Constitution and federal law, and that the panel should have vacated and substantially narrowed the injunction.

What each side argues

The positions below come from the summary of argument in each party's own brief.

Republican National Committee. The petitioner's brief argues that the act does not bar Arizona from requiring proof of citizenship, because state officials may gather information "necessary to enable" them to assess an applicant's eligibility and the word "necessary" can mean useful or helpful. It argues that Arizona's state form is "equivalent" to the federal form, and that a consent decree not based on a finding of a federal violation cannot limit the legislature's authority. On the second question, it argues that removing noncitizens does not trigger the 90-day provision because noncitizens are not "ineligible voters" under the act.

United States. The government's brief argues that the proof-of-citizenship requirement for state-form registrants complies with the act, and that a federal consent decree typically must yield to a significant change in law. On the second question, it argues that the act's limits on removing names from the official lists of eligible voters apply only to people who were properly listed in the first place.

State of Arizona and its Attorney General. The state's brief argues that the act does not prohibit Arizona from requiring proof of citizenship from state-form applicants. It also argues that the 2018 consent decree does limit the ability of Arizona election officials to require that proof, and that the decree binds the defendants in that case until it is vacated or modified.

Mi Familia Vota and the other respondents on its brief. The respondents' brief argues that Arizona may require documentary proof of citizenship for state and local elections, but that for federal elections the act lets the state form require only information that is "necessary," which it reads as essential. It argues that the consent decree is a binding federal judgment that the petitioners never asked the issuing court to modify or set aside. On the second question, it argues that the act contains no exception for removals that target potential noncitizens, and that the purpose of the 90-day provision is to protect eligible voters from being removed by mistake shortly before an election.

This page will be updated at this address after the argument on December 8 and again when the Court issues its decision.

Stephen Miller is the White House chief of staff. President Donald Trump announced his appointment as the 33rd White House chief of staff on November 6, 2026, and the White House said he succeeds Susie Wiles.

When Miller was named

The White House release is dated Friday, November 6, 2026, and does not give a start date. The White House has referred to Miller by the new title since the day of the announcement: a video it posted on November 6 is titled "White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller".

What the White House said about Miller and Wiles

The White House release said Miller "has served alongside President Trump since the very beginning". It described the time Wiles spent in the job as a "highly successful tenure".

The release also carried statements from administration officials. Vice President JD Vance said in it: "Stephen Miller is an amazing patriot and will do great things."

Where the White House lists the job

The chief of staff post does not appear on the White House's Cabinet page, which listed department secretaries and other Cabinet-level officials but no chief of staff when it was checked on November 12, 2026. For the people that page does list, see who is in the president's Cabinet.

For the leaders of Congress, see who is the Speaker of the House, who is the Senate majority leader and which party controls Congress.

FISA Section 702 has already expired. The Congressional Research Service said the provision "was automatically repealed on June 12, 2026" under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, as amended by Public Law 119-87. June 12, 2026, was a Friday. The repeal covered all of Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which the research service said includes Sections 702 through 705.

When checked on November 12, 2026, the Government Publishing Office's collection of public laws for the 119th Congress ran through Public Law 119-138, approved November 3, 2026, and no law after Public Law 119-87 in that collection changes the repeal date or restores Title VII.

How the date was set

Congress moved the date twice in April 2026, each time by amending section 403(b) of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the provision that repeals Title VII on a fixed date.

The first law replaced an earlier deadline, which had been written as two years after the enactment of the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, with the fixed date of April 30, 2026. Its legislative history shows that the House passed it on April 16 and the Senate passed it on April 17. The second law struck "April 30, 2026" and inserted "June 12, 2026", and both chambers passed it on April 30, the day it was approved.

What still operates after the repeal

The repeal did not end every activity under Section 702 on that day. The transition procedures in the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 say that any order, authorization or directive issued under Title VII "shall continue in effect until the date of the expiration of such order, authorization, or directive."

The Congressional Research Service said in a June 22, 2026, legal analysis that lawmakers and congressional aides have stated that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorized Section 702 surveillance for one year in March 2026. It said the executive branch is authorized by statute to continue operating under such court orders for up to one year after they are issued. The research service also said the court's orders are classified and that no such order appeared to have been published as of June 22.

After any such authorization expires, the research service said the government will generally have to seek an individual court order for each target under Title I of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

What Section 702 allowed

Section 702 was enacted in 2008 as part of the FISA Amendments Act. The Congressional Research Service describes it as authority for intelligence agencies to target people who are not U.S. persons and who are reasonably believed to be outside the United States, in order to acquire foreign intelligence information. The research service said the section was distinct because it allowed programmatic surveillance, meaning surveillance without an individual court order for each target and acquisition.

What Congress can do now

The research service described options for Congress. It said Congress could pass a law that reinstates Section 702 unchanged, reinstate it with amendments, or "take no action, leave Section 702 repealed, and allow any existing surveillance authority to expire." It said a reinstated Section 702 could carry a new expiration date, as earlier versions did, or be made permanent.

No. Pete Hegseth has not been impeached. The House has not adopted any impeachment resolution against him, and on November 10, 2026, it voted 211 to 204 to refer the most recent one, H.Res. 1655, to committee instead of voting on the resolution itself.

Three impeachment resolutions naming Hegseth have been filed in the 119th Congress. A search of the House resolution status records published by the Government Publishing Office, read on November 12, 2026, found no others, and none of the three has passed the House.

What happened on November 10, 2026

The status record for H.Res. 1655, titled "Impeaching Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, for high crimes and misdemeanors", lists these floor actions, all on November 10, 2026:

• Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, rose to a question of the privileges of the House and offered the resolution. The Chair determined that it did constitute a question of the privileges of the House.
• Rep. Issa, Republican of California, moved to refer the resolution to the Judiciary Committee.
• The House agreed to the motion to refer by the yeas and nays, 211 to 204, in Roll Call 317. A motion to reconsider was then laid on the table without objection.

A vote to refer sends a resolution to a committee. It is not a vote on whether to impeach.

How the House voted

The Clerk of the House recorded Roll Call 317 at 6:02 p.m. Eastern time on November 10, 2026, on the question "On Motion to Refer". A yea was a vote to send the resolution to committee.

Eighteen members did not vote: 7 Republicans and 11 Democrats. The Clerk's record lists Massie, the resolution's sponsor, as the one Republican who voted nay. Which party holds the majority is covered in Which party controls Congress?

The three impeachment resolutions

The status record for H.Res. 935 lists 1 cosponsor, the record for H.Res. 1177 lists 18, and the record for H.Res. 1655 lists none. The full texts of H.Res. 935 and H.Res. 1177 are published by the Government Publishing Office. The articles in them are allegations made by the members who submitted them. The House has not voted on any of the articles.

What it would take to impeach him

The Senate's page on impeachment quotes the Constitution: the House of Representatives "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment", and the Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments. H.Res. 1177 would, if the House agreed to it, declare him impeached and send its articles to the Senate, as the text of H.Res. 1177 shows. Because the House has agreed to none of the three resolutions, no articles have gone to the Senate and no trial has been held.

This page will be updated at this address if the House or the Judiciary Committee acts on any of the resolutions.

The Supreme Court has published argument calendars for four sessions of October Term 2026, and together they list 27 arguments from October 5, 2026, through January 20, 2027. The next session begins on Monday, November 30, 2026, and lists eight arguments through December 9. Each calendar says the Court convenes at 10 a.m.

The tables below give the case names and docket numbers as the Court's calendars print them. The calendars list when each case is argued and do not describe the legal questions in it.

Session beginning November 30, 2026

The calendar for this session is marked as amended on October 1, 2026. It lists eight arguments over six days. Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins are consolidated and share one hour of argument.

Session beginning January 11, 2027

The calendar for this session is dated November 2, 2026. It lists six arguments and marks Monday, January 18, as a legal holiday.

Session that began November 2, 2026

The calendar for this session is dated August 11, 2026. It scheduled seven arguments and marks Wednesday, November 11, as a legal holiday.

Session that began October 5, 2026

The calendar for the term's first session is marked as amended on September 14, 2026. It scheduled six arguments and marks Monday, October 12, as a legal holiday.

When the rest of the term's cases will be listed

The Court's calendar for October Term 2026 marks further argument days after January: February 22 to 24, March 1 to 3, March 22 to 24, March 29 to 31, April 19 to 21 and April 26 to 28, 2027. The Court's Calendars and Lists page carries argument calendars only for the four sessions above, so the cases for those later days are not yet listed there. The same page links to the argument transcripts and argument audio the Court posts.

This page will be updated at this address when the Court posts a new or amended argument calendar.

The president's Cabinet has 21 members on the White House's Cabinet page as of November 12, 2026, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Todd Blanche. The table below gives every name and title as that page shows them, so a reader can check who holds each office today.

The 21 Cabinet members

The White House page lists the members in alphabetical order by last name, and this table keeps that order. Each name and title is copied from the Cabinet page.

Fifteen of the 21 hold the title of Secretary or Attorney General. The other six are the Director of National Intelligence, the United States Trade Representative, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Cabinet page does not list the vice president among the 21. The White House's administration page names President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance separately, above its Cabinet section.

What the page says about recent arrivals

The Cabinet page carries a short biography of each member. Three examples describe a move into the current office.

• Todd Blanche is listed as Attorney General. His biography says he previously served as the 40th Deputy Attorney General and that the president appointed him to work alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi.
• Jay Clayton was sworn in as the ninth Director of National Intelligence on August 3, 2026, and previously served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
• Keith Sonderling is listed as Secretary of Labor. His biography says he served as Acting Secretary of Labor and Deputy Secretary of Labor before becoming Secretary.

What the Cabinet does

The White House describes the Cabinet's role as advising the president "on any subject he may require relating to the duties of each member’s respective office." Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution says the president "may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices".

The same section of the Constitution says the president nominates officers of the United States and appoints them "by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate". For the Senate, see which party controls Congress and who is the Senate majority leader.

This page will be updated at this address when the White House changes its list.

No. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 has passed the House but not the Senate, and it has not become law. The House passed its bill, H.R. 8800, on July 22, 2026, and the bill status record for H.R. 8800 lists "Received in the Senate" on September 14, 2026, as its latest action. That record and the bill status record for the Senate bill, S. 4784, list no Senate vote on passage and no public law.

Where each bill stands

Both bills carry the title National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 in their bill status records.

The House vote

The House passed H.R. 8800 by 216 yeas to 212 nays on July 22, 2026, in Roll Call 278. The Clerk of the House lists 209 Republicans, 6 Democrats and 1 independent voting yea, and 7 Republicans and 205 Democrats voting nay, with 3 members not voting. The House Armed Services Committee announced the passage the same day.

Before that vote, the bill status record for H.R. 8800 shows these steps:

• May 13, 2026: introduced in the House and referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
• June 4, 2026: ordered to be reported, as amended, by the committee by 44 yeas to 12 nays.
• June 15, 2026: reported by the committee as House Report 119-698.
• July 22, 2026: a motion to recommit the bill to the committee failed by 213 yeas to 216 nays in Roll Call 277, and the House then passed the bill.

The Senate bill

The Senate Armed Services Committee said on June 11, 2026, that it had voted 18 to 9 to advance its version of the bill. The committee's chairman, Sen. Roger Wicker, and its ranking member, Sen. Jack Reed, announced on June 16, 2026, that the bill had been filed as S. 4784. Its bill status record shows it was reported to the Senate on June 15, 2026, with written report No. 119-127, and placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar as Calendar No. 436.

On July 14, 2026, the Senate voted on whether to end debate on the motion to take up S. 4784. The motion to invoke cloture was rejected by 50 yeas to 46 nays in Roll Call Vote 195, which required a three-fifths majority; 4 senators did not vote. The bill status record shows that Senator Thune entered a motion to reconsider that vote the same day. The latest action the record lists for S. 4784 is a motion to proceed to the bill made in the Senate on July 27, 2026.

Related questions

The party split in each chamber is on the page about which party controls Congress. The Senate's vote record describes S. 4784 as a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense. The deadline for funding federal agencies is a separate question, covered in Will the government shut down on December 11?.

This page will be updated at this address when either chamber's record shows a new vote on the bill.

A lame duck session is when Congress is in session after a November election and before the beginning of the new Congress, according to the U.S. Senate. Some of the lawmakers who take part will not be returning for the next Congress, which is where the name comes from.

Why it is called a lame duck session

The Senate glossary defines a lame duck session as the time following the November general elections in an even-numbered year. It gives the reason for the name in one sentence: "So called because some of the lawmakers who take part will not be returning for the next Congress."

How the 20th Amendment shortened it

The 20th Amendment ends the terms of senators and representatives at noon on January 3 and begins the terms of their successors at the same moment. The National Archives transcript says Congress passed the amendment on March 2, 1932, and that it was ratified on January 23, 1933.

The Senate's history of lame duck sessions says the amendment changed the convening date for a new Congress to January 3 of odd-numbered years. Before that, new Congresses convened in December of odd-numbered years, and the Senate says the change shortened the time between an election and the beginning of the next Congress to two months. The date the next terms begin is covered in When does the new Congress start?.

What Congress does in a lame duck session

The Senate says that since 1933 Congress has met in lame duck session to conclude urgent or unfinished business. Its table names the major topics of each one. The three most recent on the table are below.

The House dates for those three sessions are the same as the Senate dates. The Senate notes that the date ranges include all pro forma sessions held during the lame duck sessions. Its glossary defines a pro forma session as a brief meeting of the Senate or House, often only a few minutes long, during which business is not usually conducted.

How often lame duck sessions happen

The Senate's table lists 25 Congresses with a lame duck session. The earliest is the 76th Congress, when the Senate met from November 7, 1940, to January 3, 1941, and the major topic was the threat of war in Europe. The latest on the table is the 118th Congress.

The two chambers have not always both met. In the 83rd Congress the Senate met from November 8 to December 2, 1954, and the House did not meet. In the 105th Congress the House met from December 17 to 19, 1998, and the Senate did not meet.

The membership of the current Congress is covered in Which party controls Congress?, and the December 11, 2026 funding date is covered in Will the government shut down on December 11?.

During a government shutdown, an affected federal agency has to shut down any activities funded by annual appropriations that are not excepted by law, according to the Office of Personnel Management. The agency calls the result a shutdown furlough, which occurs when there is a lapse in annual appropriations.

When a shutdown starts

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) says a shutdown furlough can occur at the beginning of a fiscal year, if no funds have been appropriated for that year, or upon expiration of a continuing resolution, if a new continuing resolution or appropriations law is not passed. It also says an agency will typically have very little to no lead time to plan and implement one.

The current funding deadline is covered in Will the government shut down on December 11?.

What happens to federal employees

OPM's Guidance for Shutdown Furloughs, dated January 2026, defines a furlough as the placing of an employee in a temporary nonduty, nonpay status because of lack of work or funds, or other nondisciplinary reasons. The guidance sorts employees into three groups.

The guidance says excepted work may include emergency work involving the safety of human life or the protection of property. Agency legal counsel, working with senior agency managers, determine which employees handle excepted functions, and each agency decides the method and timing of telling employees.

An employee may be required to do excepted work during part of a lapse and be furloughed for the rest of it, the guidance says.

Pay during and after a shutdown

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019, Public Law 116-1, was approved on January 16, 2019, and applies to any lapse in appropriations that begins on or after December 22, 2018. It says each employee furloughed as a result of a covered lapse "shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations," and each excepted employee who is required to work shall be paid for that work. The payment is at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates.

OPM's guidance says excepted employees will be paid after Congress passes and the President signs a new appropriation or continuing resolution. The parties that hold each chamber are listed in Which party controls Congress?.

Other rules for furloughed employees

The same OPM guidance answers several questions employees ask.

• A furloughed employee may not volunteer to do the job without pay. Unless otherwise authorized by law, an agency may not accept the voluntary services of an employee.
• All paid leave and other paid time off is canceled during a lapse for employees who are not excepted from the furlough.
• Health coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program continues even if an agency does not make its premium payments on time.
• Furloughed employees may be eligible for unemployment compensation. The guidance adds that retroactive pay provided later may result in overpayments under state law.
• An individual on furlough remains an employee of the federal government, so ethics standards and rules on outside employment continue to apply.

This page states what the law and OPM's guidance say. It does not predict whether or when a shutdown will occur.

A continuing resolution is an appropriation act that provides budget authority for federal agencies, specific activities, or both to continue in operation when Congress and the president have not completed action on the regular appropriation acts by the beginning of the fiscal year. That is the definition in the budget glossary of the Government Accountability Office, which notes that the term is often shortened to "CR". The same entry gives a second name for it, a continuing appropriation.

Why the start of the fiscal year matters

The glossary says the fiscal year for the federal government begins on October 1 of each year and ends on September 30 of the following year, and that a fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends. Its example is fiscal year 1990, which began on October 1, 1989, and ended on September 30, 1990. A continuing resolution is the measure used when the regular appropriation acts for a fiscal year are not complete by that starting date.

How a continuing resolution becomes law

The glossary says a continuing resolution is enacted in the form of a joint resolution, passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by the president. Its entry on joint resolutions says there is no real difference between a bill and a joint resolution, and that both require a majority vote and become law in the same manner, by bicameral enactment and signature of the president.

How long it lasts and how much it provides

The glossary describes three possible lengths and one usual limit on spending.

The glossary also defines the "current rate", a term used in continuing resolutions, as the total amount of budget authority that was available for obligation for an activity during the fiscal year immediately before the one the resolution covers. It says the current rate does not allow agencies to fund new initiatives or programs requested for the current year unless Congress specifically authorizes them.

A continuing resolution enacted in 2026

One example is the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, designated H.R. 6500, whose bill status record shows it became Public Law 119-103. Its text shows the features the glossary describes.

• Section 101 appropriates such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate for operations as provided in the applicable appropriations acts for fiscal year 2026, for continuing projects or activities that were conducted in fiscal year 2026.
• Section 104 says the funding may not be used to initiate or resume any project or activity for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available during fiscal year 2026, except as otherwise provided in section 102.
• Section 106 says that, unless the act or the applicable fiscal year 2027 appropriations act provides otherwise, the funding is available until whichever of three things occurs first: the enactment of an appropriation for a project or activity the act covers, the enactment of the applicable fiscal year 2027 appropriations act without any provision for that project or activity, or December 11, 2026.

The page on whether the government will shut down on December 11 follows that deadline.

The terms of the new Congress begin at noon on January 3, 2027, the day and hour the 20th Amendment sets for the terms of sitting senators and representatives to end and the terms of their successors to begin. January 3, 2027, is a Sunday.

What the Constitution says

Section 1 of the 20th Amendment ends the terms of senators and representatives "at noon on the 3d day of January" and adds that "the terms of their successors shall then begin." That is why newly elected members take office in January and not on Election Day.

Section 2 of the same amendment covers the meeting itself. It says Congress assembles at least once a year and that the meeting begins at noon on January 3, "unless they shall by law appoint a different day." The National Archives transcript says Congress passed the amendment on March 2, 1932, and that it was ratified on January 23, 1933.

The Senate's list of session dates says: "Since 1935, in accordance with the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, Congresses have begun and ended at noon on January 3 of odd-numbered years."

Can the first meeting be on a different day?

Yes, but only by law. The term of a member begins at noon on January 3 in every case, because Section 1 of the amendment has no exception. The day Congress first meets is the part that Section 2 lets Congress move.

The House historian's table of session dates shows first sessions that began on a day other than January 3. The 114th Congress began its first session on January 6, 2015, a Tuesday, and its second session on January 4, 2016.

When recent Congresses began

The dates below are from the House historian's table of session dates.

What happens before then

The 119th Congress stays in office until noon on January 3, 2027. The House historian's table lists it as the Congress of 2025 to 2027 and shows no adjournment date yet for its second session, which began on January 3, 2026. A deadline that falls before that date is covered in Will the government shut down on December 11?.

Republicans control both chambers of the 119th Congress, the Congress now in office. The Clerk of the House counts 218 Republicans and 214 Democrats in the House of Representatives, and the Senate lists Republicans as its majority party with 53 of 100 seats.

The current party split

The Senate also has 2 independents, which the Senate's list of senators places under "Other Parties." The Senate's party division table shows no vacancies.

The House also has 1 independent and 2 vacancies, according to the Clerk of the House. Those figures add up to 433 seated members and the 435 seats in the chamber. The House Press Gallery shows the same count and ties the 2 vacancies to two resignations: Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican from Texas, on April 14, 2026, and Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Democrat from Florida, on April 21, 2026.

Who leads each chamber

For a deadline now before Congress, see whether the government will shut down on December 11.

The House posts are listed by the Clerk of the House, and the Senate posts are on the Senate's leadership page. That page also lists Vice President J.D. Vance and the President Pro Tempore, Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, as the Senate's constitutionally mandated officers.

How the House numbers changed since the election

The House Historian's party divisions table records the 119th Congress as 220 Republicans and 215 Democrats. The Historian's office said those figures are "the House party divisions as of the initial election results for a particular Congress," so they leave out later deaths, resignations, special elections and changes in a member's party. The Clerk's count of 218 Republicans, 214 Democrats, 1 independent and 2 vacancies is the current one.

The Senate's party division table shows the same split for both sessions of the 119th Congress: 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and 2 independents.

When the 119th Congress ends

The Senate dates the 119th Congress from January 3, 2025, to January 3, 2027. House Republicans have chosen their leaders for the next Congress. The Speaker's office said on November 10, 2026, that House Republicans elected Rep. Jim Jordan "to serve as Minority Leader" in the 120th Congress. The terms of the new Congress begin at noon on January 3, 2027.

The official pages cited here give party counts for the 119th Congress only. This page will be updated at this address when the House and Senate publish the party division of the next Congress.

Rep. Mike Johnson is the Speaker of the House, according to the leadership page of the House of Representatives and the leadership page of the Clerk of the House. His official biography describes him as the 56th Speaker and a Republican member of Congress serving Louisiana's Fourth District.

When Mike Johnson became Speaker

The House Office of the Historian lists two elections of Johnson as Speaker. The first was on October 25, 2023, during the 118th Congress, to fill the vacancy left when Speaker Kevin McCarthy was removed from the office on October 3, 2023, under House Resolution 757. The second was on January 3, 2025, for the 119th Congress, which the same list dates from 2025 to 2027.

His biography says he was first elected to Congress in December 2016, is serving his fifth term and is the first person from Louisiana elected Speaker.

Recent Speakers of the House

These are the five most recent Speaker elections on the Historian's list.

How the Speaker is chosen

The office comes from the Constitution, which says in Article I, Section 2, "The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers".

The Office of the Historian explains that the Speaker is elected at the beginning of a new Congress by a majority of the Representatives-elect, from candidates chosen separately by the majority and minority party caucuses. Those candidates are picked by their party members at organizing caucuses held soon after a new Congress is elected. When the office becomes vacant during a Congress, a majority of the House elects a new Speaker. The same page says the Speaker has always been a House member but is not required to be one, and that 56 people have served as Speaker.

House leadership is elected every two years at the beginning of a new Congress, the Clerk of the House says, so the Speaker's election is repeated each time a new Congress begins.

On November 10, 2026, the Speaker's office said House Republicans had elected Rep. Jim Jordan to serve as Minority Leader, Rep. Tom Emmer as Minority Whip and Rep. Lisa McClain as Republican Conference Chair in the 120th Congress. That statement did not name a Speaker for the 120th Congress, and this page will be updated at this address when the House elects one.

What the Speaker does

The House describes the Speaker as the leader of the House, combining the roles of presiding officer and administrative head of the House, leader of the majority party in the House and elected member of the House. The same page says the Speaker is second in line to succeed the President, after the Vice President.

For a deadline now before Congress, see Will the government shut down on December 11?

John Thune, a Republican senator from South Dakota, is the Senate majority leader, according to the Senate's list of current leadership and officers for the 119th Congress. The same list names Charles E. Schumer of New York as the Democratic leader.

The Senate's top party leaders

These names come from the Senate's leadership list for the 119th Congress.

The Senate's list of majority and minority leaders shows Thune as majority leader and Schumer as minority leader for the 119th Congress, which it dates 2025 to 2027.

Which party holds the majority

The Senate's party division page lists 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and 2 independents in the 119th Congress, with no vacancies among the 100 seats. The page dates the 119th Congress from January 3, 2025, to January 3, 2027.

What the majority leader does

The Senate's history of the position says the Democratic and Republican conferences each elect one of their members as party leader with each new Congress. The leader of the party in power serves as majority leader and the other serves as minority leader.

According to that page, the majority leader:

• schedules business on the floor by calling bills from the calendar, working with committee chairs and ranking members;
• keeps members of the party informed about the daily legislative program;
• works out, in consultation with the minority leader, the unanimous consent agreements that can limit debate time on a measure and divide it between the parties;
• is called on first by the presiding officer when several senators seek recognition at the same time, ahead of the minority leader and the managers of the bill.

The page says this right of first recognition lets the majority leader offer amendments, substitutes and motions to reconsider before any other senator. It also says the position of party floor leader is not in the Constitution and developed gradually in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

For a deadline now before Congress, see whether the government will shut down on December 11.

Thune's record in Congress

Thune's Senate biography says he grew up in Murdo, South Dakota, and served three terms as the state's only member of the House of Representatives. It says he won his Senate seat in 2004 and was elected to further terms in 2010, 2016 and 2022.

He was previously the Senate Republican whip from 2019 to 2024, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference from 2012 to 2018 and chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee from 2009 to 2011, according to the biography, which also says he serves as the Senate majority leader. It says he serves on the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the Finance Committee in the 119th Congress.

Who came before

The Senate's list of leaders includes these three most recent Congresses.

A note on that list says Mitch McConnell served as majority leader from January 3 to January 20, 2021, at the start of the 117th Congress, and that Schumer became majority leader after a Democratic majority was established on January 20, 2021.

Federal funding runs through December 11, 2026, under Public Law 119-103, and it lapses after that date unless Congress passes and the president signs a new funding measure. Whether that happens cannot be answered with a yes or a no yet, because the votes have not been held. What can be stated is the deadline itself and what the law requires, and both come straight from the text Congress passed.

What the law says

Federal agencies are operating under the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, which is Public Law 119-103. A continuing appropriations act is a stopgap: it keeps money flowing while the regular full-year spending bills are unfinished.

Section 106 of the act says the funding stays available until whichever of three things happens first. The first is the enactment of an appropriation for a given project or activity. The second is the enactment of the applicable fiscal 2027 appropriations act without any provision for that project or activity. The third is December 11, 2026.

What has to happen to avoid a lapse

For funding to continue past December 11, a new measure has to pass the House and the Senate and be signed by the president before the stopgap runs out. That measure can be the regular fiscal 2027 appropriations acts or another continuing appropriations act that sets a later date.

How the current stopgap passed

The bill status record shows the Senate passed its version 90 to 6 on August 8, 2026. The House agreed to the Senate amendments 370 to 48 on September 1, 2026, on a motion that required a two-thirds majority. The measure was presented to the president and signed on September 2, 2026.

What this page does not say

This page does not predict whether Congress will act in time, and it reports no odds. It will be updated on this address when a new funding measure is introduced, passed or signed.