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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., no longer sits on the powerful House Rules Committee after he was the only Republican to vote against Speaker Mike Johnson in the House leadership election.
The 2024 election is today, and the results will usher in the 119th Congress.. The United States Congress is comprised of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The 118th ...
The certification process, usually a formality, was upended four years ago when supporters of Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol in a bid to halt the transfer of power to Democrat Joe Biden ...
The winners of this election will serve in the 119th United States Congress, with seats apportioned among states based on the 2020 United States census. The House Republican Conference has been led by Mike Johnson since October 2023, following the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House and the speaker election that Johnson
McCarthy's removal marked the first time in American history that a speaker of the House was removed through a motion to vacate. The vacancy started a process to elect a speaker that began following an eight-day recess. In the 118th Congress, the 2022 elections formed a narrow majority for Republicans in the House of Representatives.
The speaker of the House of Representatives is the House's presiding officer, and the position is explicitly established by the Constitution of the United States. [10] The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially after a general election) or when a speaker dies, resigns, or is removed from the position by a vote held during an active term.
Kevin McCarthy has for now lost the House speaker’s gavel in an historic moment on the heels of a showdown on Capitol Hill over government funding. McCarthy removed as House speaker after motion ...
House speaker elections on Friday are less about Mike Johnson and more about Donald Trump. Johnson’s frantic fight to hold onto his job was still a cliffhanger heading into a fateful day for ...