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July 2012 Congressional Pictorial Directory for the 112th Congress (PDF) (2nd Revised ed.). Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Joint Committee on Printing (2013). August 2013 Congressional Pictorial Directory for the 113th Congress (PDF). Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Joint Committee on Printing (2015).
Some members of the Tea Party movement argued for repealing the Seventeenth Amendment entirely, claiming it would protect states' rights and reduce the power of the federal government. [69] On March 2, 2016, the Utah legislature approved Senate Joint Resolution No. 2 asking Congress to offer an amendment to the United States Constitution that ...
There have been a total of 254 senators appointed to the United States Senate since the 1913 ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, including 207 appointments made before the next scheduled or special election and 47 appointments made of senators-elect who have already been elected to the seat.
An amendment may be proposed and sent to the states for ratification by either: The U.S. Congress, whenever a two-thirds majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives deem it necessary; or; A national convention, called by Congress for this purpose, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the states (34 since 1959).
After losing to John G. Downey in the first election and Leland Stanford in the second, Conness was chosen by the legislature to fill the full term of U.S. Senator from California for the term beginning in 1863 (Senators were selected by state legislatures until the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913). Portrait by Mathew Brady c. 1860–1875
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus will be wearing black pins with the number “1870” on them, which marks the year of the first known police killing of an unarmed and free Black person ...
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 20, 2025, the 119th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
Multiple members of Congress were denied entry to the Department of Education on Friday, according to videos and social media posts from lawmakers. “They are blocking members of Congress from ...