Today, Adelita Grijalva passed Conor Lamb for the 3rd-longest wait to be sworn into the House since 2005. (Data collected by @greggiroux.bsky.social: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...)

North Carolina's Republican legislature cleared new congressional district lines: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go... #NC01 #ncleg

US House Special Elections, 1957-present: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Includes, for the past 20 years, the number of days between a special election victory and the winner's House swearing-in

Official results of the Arizona 7th Congressional District special election Sept. 23, per canvass released today: Adelita Grijalva (D) 70,148 (68.92%) Daniel Butierez (R) 29,944 (29.42%) Others 1,684 (1.65%) Total 101,776 #az07

Maine Auditor Matt Dunlap announces Democratic primary challenge to US Rep. Jared Golden, who has the pro-Trump '24 district of any Democrat and was the only House Democrat who voted for the GOP continuing resolution last month. #me02 news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

"Over the next week-and-a-half, lawyers defending the maps for Texas will argue in an El Paso courtroom that state lawmakers drew them strictly to hand Republicans five additional seats in Washington ..." news.bloomberglaw.com/states-of-pl...

Madison Cawthorn (R), former North Carolina congressman, filed to seek Florida's 19th Congressional District, which Byron Donalds is giving up to run for governor docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form... #FL19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFw0...

[Kamala] "Harris for President" campaign committee is now "Fight for the People PAC" per FEC filing today: docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

“Voters should be choosing their representatives and not the other way around." GOP's "extreme policies are so unpopular that they know they can’t win unless they cheat." -US Rep Sharice Davids (D-KS) to me this week about a potential re-redistricting in her state: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

Will NEBRASKA join in the mid-decade redistricting? US Rep. Adrian Smith (R): "I would be surprised. Our unicameral legislature is more of a Senate than a House by rules, so the filibuster applies." (h/t my Bloomberg Government colleague Maeve Sheehey) #NE02

Missouri redistricting: Gov. Mike Kehoe will sign new Republican congressional map on Sunday

Utah’s redistricting committee has convened to discuss proposed remedial congressional maps: le.utah.gov/committee/co... le.utah.gov/interim/2025...

US Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona) will succeed her late father Raúl Grijalva, who served in the House for 22 years. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go... TRIVIA: Can you name the members of the current 119th Congress who are daughters of former members of Congress?

US Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona): • 1st Latina to serve AZ in Congress • Record number of Latinas in Congress h/t @cawp-ru.bsky.social • 152 women in Congress (both chambers) ties record set late last year • 218th signature on Epstein discharge petition • House will be 219R/214D

U.S. House Special Elections, 1957-present: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Updated with Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva's victory Tuesday in #AZ07

Merry Constitution Day!

MISSOURI (RE-)REDISTRICTING: Republican legislature gave final approval to GOP Gov. Mike Kehoe's "7-1" map endorsed by President Trump, favoring Republicans in 7 of 8 districts and targeting longtime KC-area Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver: t.co/BHF6rse2OC #moleg #mo05

Trivia time! 1. What US House member running for governor in 2026 was chief of staff to the governor last decade? 2. A US senator was previously chief of staff to a person who's now his junior Senate colleague. Name them. 3. Identify the missing name below from a 1976 article

Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) sworn in to House by Speaker Johnson, one day after Walkinshaw won special election to succeed the late Gerry Connolly (D). Walkinshaw, 42, was Connolly’s chief of staff for 11 years. #VA11 House now: 219 Republicans, 213 Democrats, 3 vacancies

US Rep.-elect James Walkinshaw (D-VA) will be sworn in today at about 4:20 pm Washington time, per Speaker Mike Johnson's office. #VA11

Delighted that the 2026 edition of the Almanac of American Politics has arrived! Many congratulations and thanks to all who contributed.

Dozens of members of Congress previously worked on Capitol Hill, though Rep.-elect James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) is in a select group in the 119th Congress who served as a member's chief of staff news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go... #VA11

James Walkinshaw: "I am honored and deeply humbled to stand before you tonight as the 11th District's Congressman-elect. It was an overwhelming victory and a record-setting turnout and margin." "Northern Virginians have sent a very powerful message: the reckless Trump agenda must come to an end."

US House Special Elections, 1957-present: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Updated to include James Walkinshaw's (D) victory Tuesday in Virginia's 11th District #VA11

Today in 1974, President Gerald Ford's press secretary Jerald terHorst submitted his resignation after Nixon pardon:

Missouri Redistricting: the state House Rules-Legislative Committee advanced Republican congressional remap proposal on a 7-3 vote

#PA10: Dauphin County Commissioner Justin Douglas (D) filed w/ FEC to seek Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District held by Rep. Scott Perry (R)

Missouri House redistricting committee has convened to hear testimony on a proposed congressional remap favoring Republicans in seven of eight districts. Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's KC-area 5th District would be substantially redrawn:

New York Assemblyman Micah Lasher (D) filed a statement of candidacy w/FEC to seek #NY12, deep-blue Manhattan district Rep. Jerry Nadler (D) is giving up to retire docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/…

I wrote today about some California Democrats in Congress who would give up a lot of turf under a proposed new congressional map to help their party win up to five more seats to counteract Texas news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

No quorum in Texas House (95 present). Speaker Burrows: "If we still do not have quorum on Friday, the House and the Senate will sine die this session and the governor will immediately issue a proclamation for a second called special session. We will gavel in for the second session Friday"

Texas House congressional redistricting committee advanced the Republican map proposal on a 12-6 vote w/o amendment. house.texas.gov/videos/22435

#NCSen: ex-Gov. Roy Cooper (D) updated campaign website to reflect US Senate bid www.roycooper.com

Updated with Dec. 2, 2025 special election in #TN07 (Green/R). docs.google.com/spreadsheets... First US House special election in Tennessee since 1988

Underway: Texas House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting hearing house.texas.gov/videos/22389

Underway: Texas Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting hearing senate.texas.gov/videoplayer....

Underway: Texas Senate Special Committee on Congressional Redistricting hearing senate.texas.gov/videoplayer....

Underway: public hearing of Texas House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting house.texas.gov/videos/22388

"Ready to Fight PAC" is the new leadership PAC of #VA11 Democrat James Walkinshaw, Fairfax County supervisor and former Gerry Connolly chief of staff favored to succeed Connolly in Sept. 9 special election: docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

US House now 219R, 212D after Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) resignation last night. 4 vacancies: #VA11 (D/Connolly) - Sept. 9 special #AZ07 (D/Grijalva) - Sept. 23 #TX18 (D/Turner) - Nov. 4 all-party election (runoff TBD) #TN07 (R/Green) - probably Dec. 2 special

US Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Arizona) was our @bgov.com roundtable guest today: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go... #AZ03 Elected to House last November after serving on Phoenix city council. Ansari, 33, is the fourth-youngest member of Congress and its youngest woman.

#PA10: Janelle Stelson (D) today announced long-anticipated rematch vs Rep. Scott Perry (R) District in 2024 elections: President: Trump +5.3 points Senate: McCormick +4.3 House: Perry +1.3 #PA10 includes all of Dauphin County, most of Cumberland County, part of York County

US House, in 218-214 vote, gave final approval to Republicans' tax/immigration/energy/health care reconciliation package that President Trump will sign into law.

Re House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ “magic minute” speech (ongoing) ahead of final vote: “The Chair may follow a tradition of the House to allow the highest ranking elected leaders (Speaker, Majority Leader, and Minority Leader) additional time to make their remarks in debate.”

Starting soon: #VA11 Democratic candidate forum Streaming here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaxD... Both parties choosing nominees Saturday; Sept. 9 special general election to complete term of late ex-Rep. Gerry Connolly (D) in strongly Dem northern Virginia district

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who once worked for John Cornyn, said Cornyn-Ken Paxton Senate primary will be "really brutal, expensive." Polls say Paxton "could lose the general election, so we could potentially lose a Senate seat in Texas." From BGOV roundtable with McCaul: t.co/YThLqgwMwQ

Underway in South Carolina Supreme Court: arguments in a partisan gerrymandering case challenging the constitutionality of the current congressional map www.scetv.org/live/supreme... #sc01

Rereading William S. White's "Citadel: The Story of the US Senate" (1956-1957)

95 years ago today (June 17, 1930): President Herbert Hoover signed the Tariff Act of 1930 (Smoot-Hawley, or Hawley-Smoot if you swear by Ferris Bueller's Day Off)

So truncated is the #VA11 special election that the FEC isn't requiring pre-election campaign finance reports for candidates and political committees involved in the June 28 party-run nominating events. (Gerry Connolly died May 21.)