lower chamber

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• A similar bill cleared a House committee earlier in the day and could come up for a floor vote in the lower chamber by Friday, the midpoint of the General Assembly session and the deadline for bills to clear one chamber and “cross over” to the other.

  With state Senate vote, Virginia moves closer to abolishing death penalty | Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider | February 3, 2021 | Washington Post

• Never mind that the Republican Party controlled the lower chamber of the legislature for eight years of the decade and the upper chamber for six.

  Inside the Capitol Riot: What the Parler Videos Reveal | by Alec MacGillis | January 17, 2021 | ProPublica

• Drucker held a similar role in the House GOP's 2012 and 2014 campaigns, both of which ended with the party in firm control of the lower chamber.

  The Trailer: How Democrats plan to fight domestic terror | David Weigel | January 14, 2021 | Washington Post

• Even though Democrats lost seats in the lower chamber, there were very few people who voted for opposite parties for president and House.

  There Wasn’t That Much Split-Ticket Voting In 2020 | Nathaniel Rakich (nathaniel.rakich@fivethirtyeight.com) | December 2, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight

• The GOP is eyeing five DFL-held Senate seats and would love to flip the state House as well, although the math — the DFL has a 16-seat advantage in the lower chamber — makes the latter more unlikely.

  Could Democrats Win Full Control Of More State Governments Than Republicans? | Nathaniel Rakich (nathaniel.rakich@fivethirtyeight.com) | October 20, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight