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Republicans retained their slim majority in the House of Representatives, despite losing a seat, during the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections. [17] With a two seat larger majority, in the January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, a faction of the Republican majority, mostly represented by the Freedom Caucus, refused to support Republican ...
In some high-stakes political drama, the House of Representatives on Friday voted to reelect House Speaker Mike Johnson to lead the 119th Congress by a razor-thin margin. Johnson, a Louisiana ...
The seat of the US House Speaker stands empty as the House of Representatives continues voting for new speaker at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 4, 2023.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.,receives the gavel from Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.,as he's swon in for another term leading the House of Representatives, Jan. 3, 2025.
January 3, 2025, 12 p.m. EST: Congress convenes. Members-elect of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives are sworn in. Mike Johnson is re-elected House speaker. [2] January 6, 2025: Joint session to count electoral votes and certify the 2024 United States presidential election.
The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership (Yale University Press; 2010) 292 pages; Examines partisan pressures and other factors that shaped the leadership of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; focuses on the period since 1940. Grossman, Mark. Speakers of the House of Representatives (Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2009 ...
Additionally, the speaker is second in the presidential line of succession, after the vice president and ahead of the president pro tempore of the Senate. [2] The House elects a new speaker by roll call vote when it first convenes after a general election for its two-year term, or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position ...
In reality, the likely next Speaker of the House will be either current Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) or current House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), depending on the outcome ...