This Week In Research: March 4th - March 8th, 2024

Highlights from the Week

1. On March 5th, 2024, 15 states and 1 territory cast their vote for president in primary and caucus elections. Additionally, five states voted for representatives for Congress, four for state legislatures, one for governor, and for a litany of statewide and state judicial offices on a day colloquially known as “Super Tuesday.” In the presidential race, President Biden and former President Trump both won all but one of the states on the ballot, with Biden losing the American Samoa caucus and Trump losing the Vermont primary. Now both are within a few hundred delegates of officially clinching their respective nominations for their parties. The following day, Congressman Dean Phillips dropped out of the Democratic primary, and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican primary. To read a statement from President Biden after his Super Tuesday victories, click here. To read a transcript of the speech Trump gave following his victories, click here. To read a transcript of Haley’s speech announcing her suspension, click here. Finally, to see the results of the elections held on Super Tuesday, click on the links in the “Elections” section below.

2. On March 6th, 2024, the United States House of Representatives passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024. This bill, which was passed by a vote of 339-85, would fully fund the remaining agencies in the government until the end of the fiscal year in September. This bill needed to be passed by March 8th, due to the week-long spending bill Congress passed last week. It then proceeded on to the U.S. Senate for consideration. To read more about this bill, as well as how your representatives voted, click here. To read a statement from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, click here. To read a statement from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, click here. To read a statement from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, click here. To read a statement from Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, click here. To read a statement from Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, click here. To read a statement from Representative Chip Roy of Texas, click here. Lastly, to read a statement from Representative Barry Moore of Alabama, click here.

3. On March 7th, 2024, President Joe Biden gave his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. This speech, which lasted over an hour, laid out the president’s agenda not just for the coming year, but also an agenda should Biden win a second term in November. The president laid out his agenda in terms of democracy and freedom, speaking about the war in Ukraine and the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol; in terms of economic empowerment, with inclusion of the debate over in vitro fertilization, promising to restore the abortion protections outlined in Roe v. Wade, the low unemployment rate and new manufacturing jobs as a result of bills like the Inflation Reduction Act and the infrastructure bill; in terms of defending social security and medicare and protecting union jobs; in terms of the immigration and border security deal that both parties negotiated; and finally in terms of his foreign policy, going through his support for a two-state solution in the Middle East and a pledge to construct a pier in Gaza to more efficiently deliver aid. To read the full transcript of Biden’s speech, click here. To read a transcript of the Republican Party’s response to the speech by Senator Katie Britt of Alabama, click here. Lastly, to read a more in-depth summary of the addresses, click here.

Elections

By the Elections Research team: Nick, Zachary, Caleb, Seth, Jessica, Max and interns Isabella, Guiselle, Elsie, Jun, Stephen, Deonte, Sierra, Braden, Ashlyn, and Maddie

Biographies & Elections:

Here are the results from the Super Tuesday elections. Click on the state below to view the results for the presidential contests from Tuesday:

• Alabama Presidential Primary

• Alaska Republican Presidential Primary

• American Samoa Democratic Caucus

• Arkansas Presidential Primary

• California Presidential Primary

• Colorado Presidential Primary

• Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus

• Massachusetts Presidential Primary

• Maine Presidential Primary

• Minnesota Presidential Primary

• North Carolina Presidential Primary

• Oklahoma Presidential Primary

• Tennessee Presidential Primary

• Texas Presidential Primary

• Utah Presidential Primary

• Vermont Presidential Primary

• Virginia Presidential Primary

Click on the state below to view the results for down-ballot (non-presidential) races:

• Alabama Congressional Elections

• Alabama Statewide Elections

• Alabama State Judicial Elections

• Alabama Amendment 1 Ballot Measure

• Alabama Proposition 1 Ballot Measure

• Arkansas Congressional Elections

• Arkansas State Judicial Elections

• Arkansas State Legislative Elections

• California Congressional Elections

• California State Legislative Elections

• California Proposition 1 Ballot Measure

• Massachusetts State Legislative Special Election

• Maine State Legislative Special Election

• North Carolina Congressional Elections

• North Carolina Gubernatorial Election

• North Carolina Statewide Elections

• North Carolina State Judicial Election

• North Carolina State Legislative Elections

• Texas Congressional Elections

• Texas Statewide Elections

• Texas State Judicial Elections

• Texas State Legislative Elections

Want to learn more about candidates running for elected office in 2024? Click on the states below to see the full list:

• Illinois State Legislative Candidates

• Ohio State Legislative Candidates

• Pennsylvania Congressional Candidates

Want to learn more about elected officials in your state? You can see the full list here:

• Congressional Officials

Want to learn more about the leadership in each state legislature? You can see the full leadership rosters here:

• Legislative Leadership

Want to learn more about which committees elected officials are a part of? You can see the full list of committees for each state here:

• State Legislative Committees

Officials

By the Officials Research team: Sam, Johanan, Neal, Thomas, and Quinn. Interns: Deaja, Luiza, Deyab, Tina, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Dev, Ethan. 

Public Statements: 354 statements were added this week. See highlights from the week for notable statements.

Key Votes: 

States: 44 new votes were added. 

• Tennessee House passed HB 2882 - Requires All Student Complete a Firearm Safety Training Course

• Utah House Concurrence Vote (action by which one house agrees to a proposal or action that the other chamber has approved) passed HB 119 - Authorizes Incentives for Teachers to Conceal Carry in School

• Utah House Concurrence Vote passed HB 84 - Authorizes School Employees to Volunteer as Armed Guards

• Iowa House passed HF 2586 - Authorizes School Employees to be Issued Permits to Carry Weapons

• Ohio Senate passed SB 148 - Establishes the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act

• U.S. Congress: 7 new votes were added.

• House passed HR 7454 - Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024

• House passed HR 4984 - D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus Revitalization Act

• House passed HR 7102 - Native American Entrepreneurial Opportunity Act

• House passed HR 6544 - Atomic Energy Advancement Act

• House passed HR 3838 - Preventing Maternal Deaths Reauthorization Act of 2023

• House passed HR 3821 - Fighting Cancer Registry Reauthorization Act of 2023

• House passed H Res 1061 - Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 4366, with an amendment

   Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

• This year to date, the SIGs team has entered 35,083 ratings and 7,276 endorsements for candidates.