Plumbing pioneers are still looking for ways to make indoor plumbing more efficient, intuitive, and cost-effective. Today, a growing number of homes have been updated with low-flow toilets and showerheads for the purpose of water conservation.
As Election Day results came in pointing to a presidential victory for Donald Trump and wins for other Republicans in Congress, conservative pundit Ann Coulter offered a nugget of history. 1928 was last time Republicans had the White House, the House and the Senate, Coulter tweeted Nov. 9 at 12:19 a.m.
In 1999, Republicans took control of the long-time Democratic House of Delegates for the first time since Reconstruction (with the exception of a brief 2-year period in which the Readjuster Party was in the majority in the 1880s).he House is presided over by the Speaker of the House, who is elected from among the House membership by the Delegates. The Speaker is almost always a member of the majority party and, as Speaker, becomes the most powerful member of the House.