Barack Obama: The Senate

House Of Representatives Dept: America s political landscape is not much changed. Barack Obama occupies the White House, the Republicans control the House of Representatives and the Democrats have the edge in the Senate, according to The Chronicle Herald. Perhaps most strikingly, gay-marriage advocates won all four measures they were contesting. Maine, Maryland and Washington became the first states to legalize same-sex marriage by a popular vote, after legislatures and courts had granted gays the right to wed in six other states and Washington, DC. Voters in Minnesota rejected a proposed constitutional ban. Few campaigners had dared hope for a clean sweep, and rulings in the new Supreme Court term may provide a further boost and this week, however, some parts of the country made a decisive break with the past. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.