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Democrats won a majority of seats in the House of Representatives as Republicans strengthened their grip on the Senate in the US midterm elections yesterday (November 7). How will the election results affect science, health, education, and the environment? It’s a bit of a mixed bag.
More than 10 of the candidates with science, technology, and healthcare backgrounds who ran for national offices in the midterm elections won their races, as did many running for state offices.
Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), who won reelection last night, is expected to be the new leader of the House science committee, succeeding Lamar Smith (R-TX), who is retiring, Science reports. Johnson, the first nurse elected to the US Congress, says in a statement that she believes Congress should “address the challenge of climate change, starting with acknowledging it is real, seeking to understand what climate science is telling ...
