Chambering [verb]

His win is another crucial victory for Republicans as the party seeks to maintain control of the chamber, which will now be determined by a pair of January runoff elections in Georgia.

Democrats failed to pick up any state legislative chambers this November, and they could face the consequences of that for the next decade.

So that leaves the two Senate seats from Georgia to determine control of the chamber in a rare double-barreled runoff election nearly two months from now.

All in all, the results mean Republicans will control 59 out of the country’s 98 partisan chambers—Nebraska has just one nonpartisan legislative chamber.

Besides becoming the highest-ranking nonbinary official in the country, Turner will also be the first practicing Muslim elected to the Oklahoma state legislature, which in 2019 blocked an imam from conducting the chamber’s daily prayer.

On average, an election day brings about 10 chambers flipped.

The GOP was poised to maintain its slim majority in the Senate and to gain seats in the House, leaving Democrats with a narrower majority in that chamber.

In Ashland County, on the shores of Lake Superior, the last recount was conducted in the county board chambers.

Lummis bought Bitcoin in 2013 on a tip from her son-in-law and, upon her arrival to Senate in January, will be the first member of Congress’s upper chamber to own cryptocurrency.

Next, the researchers used a jet nozzle to spray ethanol droplets into a chamber eight cubic meters in size and used lasers to track how they moved through space.