GOP will soon not be able to lose more than 2 votes in any party-line vote, with Democrats expecting to gain back seat next month.
The Republican Party's razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives looks set to be reduced further amid a number of special elections and suggestions of further resignations.Panic set in within the GOP after Colorado Representative Ken Buck announced that he will not retire at the end of his current term, as he previously said, but instead will leave Congress sometime this week.
In June, a special election will take place in Ohio to replace Bill Johnson's vacated 6th District seat. Johnson left politics in January to take the position of president of Youngstown State University.The same month, there will be a special election to determine who will replace Buck in Colorado. The seat is also expected to go to a Republican. There will be further races to determine control of the House in November.
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