Since polystyrene disintegrates slowly, one of the main challenges that it poses on the environment is that exposure to the sun causes it to photodegrade, meaning it breaks apart into smaller and smaller pieces. The broken down material ends up looking like food to small animals.
United States Congress elections, 2016. A total of 469 seats in the U.S. Congress (34 Senate seats and all 435 House seats) were up for election on November 8, 2016. The big story of the 2016 congressional election cycle was whether or not the Democratic Party would be able to regain control of the Senate.
In the United States, the House of Representatives is reapportioned once every 10 years following the census. Because changing the number of US Representatives requires redr â¦ awing the Congressional districts, the new seats are not added until the next 2-year election for the House (e.g. in 2002, 2012, 2022).