Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7,2000. Republican nominee,Governor George W. Bush of Texas,the eldest son of the 41st U.S. President,George H. W. Bush,narrowly defeated incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore. It was the fourth of five U.S. presidential elections,and the first since 1888,in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote,and is considered one of the closest U.S. presidential elections,with long-standing controversy about the result. Gore conceded the election on December 13 after the Supreme Court issued its decision.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5,1996. Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton and his running mate,incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore were re-elected to a second and final term,defeating the Republican ticket of former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp and the Reform ticket of businessman Ross Perot and economist Pat Choate.
Suffolk County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York,constituting the eastern two-thirds of Long Island. It is bordered to its west by Nassau County,to its east by Gardiners Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean,to its north by Long Island Sound,and to its south by the Atlantic Ocean.
West Islip is a hamlet and CDP settled in 1683,located in the Town of Islip,in Suffolk County,New York,United States. Situated on the South Shore of Long Island,the population of the CDP was 27,048 at the time of the 2020 census.
Chester Trent Lott Sr. is an American lobbyist,lawyer,author,and politician who represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the United States Senate from 1989 to 2007. Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both chambers of Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. Later in his career,he served twice as Senate Majority Leader,and also,alternately,Senate Minority Leader. In 2003,he stepped down from the position after controversy due to his praising of Senator Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a pro-Israel lobbying group that advocates its policies to the legislative and executive branches of the United States. One of several pro-Israel lobbying organizations in the country,it has been called one of its most powerful lobbying groups.
Islip is a town in Suffolk County,New York,United States,on the South Shore of Long Island. The population was 335,543 at the 2010 census,making it the fourth most populous city or town in the New York metropolitan area.
William Marshall Thomas is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 2007,finishing his tenure representing California's 22nd congressional district and as the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Enrico Anthony Lazio is an American attorney and former four-term U.S. Representative from the State of New York. A Long Island native,Lazio became well-known during his bid for U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election;he was defeated by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Lazio also ran unsuccessfully for the 2010 New York State Republican Party gubernatorial nomination.
Robert Kenneth Dornan is an American actor,radio talk show host,combat veteran,and Republican politician from California. Dornan represented two Southern California districts in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983 and from 1985 to 1997,where he became known as a "leading firebrand" on the party's conservative wing. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 1982 and for President of the United States in 1996.
Carol Martha Browner is an American lawyer,environmentalist,and businesswoman,who served as director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. Browner previously served as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001. She currently works as a Senior Counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group,a global business strategy firm.
Gary Leonard Ackerman is an American retired politician and former U.S. representative from New York,serving from 1983 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. On March 15,2012,Ackerman announced that he would retire at the end of the 112th Congress on January 3,2013,after fifteen terms,and would not seek re-election in November 2012.
The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy,sometimes referred to as Chinagate,was an effort by the People's Republic of China to influence domestic American politics prior to and during the Clinton administration and also involved the fundraising practices of the administration itself.
Raymond Joseph (Ray) McGrath is an American educator and politician who served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1993. He was a Republican from New York.
William Kingsland "King" Macy was an American politician from New York.
The 2008 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held on November 4,2008,to elect the 29 U.S. representatives from the State of New York,one from each of the state's 29 congressional districts. state of New York in the United States House of Representatives. New York has 29 seats in the House,apportioned according to the 2000 United States census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms;those elected will serve in the 111th Congress from January 4,2009,until January 3,2011. The election coincided with the 2008 U.S. presidential election in which Democrat Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a wide margin.
Since the Great Depression,Rhode Island politics have been dominated by the Rhode Island Democratic Party,and the state is considered part of the Democrats' "Blue Wall." Democrats have won all but four presidential elections since 1928,with the exceptions being 1952,1956,1972,and 1984. The Rhode Island Republican Party,although virtually non-existent in the Rhode Island General Assembly,has remained competitive in gubernatorial elections,having won one as recently as 2006. Until 2014,Democrats had not won a gubernatorial election in the state since 1992,and it was not until 2018 that they won one by double digits. The Rhode Island General Assembly has continuously been under Democratic control since 1959.
Andrew Reed Garbarino is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 2nd congressional district since 2021. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the New York State Assemblyman for the 7th district from 2013 to 2020.
The 2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 3,2020,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Kentucky,concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate,elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Mitch McConnell,who had been Senate Majority Leader since 2015 and senator from Kentucky since 1985,won reelection to a seventh term in office. He faced off against former U.S. Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath and Libertarian Brad Barron.
A statue of American Founding Father and U.S. President Thomas Jefferson by the French sculptor David d'Angers stands in the Capitol rotunda of the U.S. Congress. Jefferson is portrayed holding a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence,which he mainly drafted in 1776 as a member of the Committee of Five during the Second Continental Congress. The painted plaster model also stood in the chambers of the New York City Council.
