A North Carolina state House committee voted Tuesday to advance a new congressional map over the objections of Democrats and some protesters -- setting up a vote in the full House on a measure that c...

Last week, North Carolina Republicans unveiled a plan, backed by President Donald Trump, to redraw the state’s congressional map in order to pick up another seat for the GOP in the 2026 midterms.

According to the House’s history and archives, the Founders based it on British law and therefore required members to live in their states, but the district system came later.