The week after the Thanksgiving holiday, Congress was back in action to pass legislation preventing what could have been an economically devastating freight rail strike. Also in the Senate, the Respect for Marriage Act passed with bipartisan support, advancing a bill to protect same-sex marriage rights.
Down south, candidates in the runoff race for Georgia’s Senate seat campaigned through the state’s early voting period and ahead of the special Election Day this Tuesday. Prominent party figures on both sides turned out on behalf of both Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Raphael Warnock, who were forced into a runoff against each other after neither candidate received at least 50% of the vote on Nov. 8.
