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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 intra-term. A majority of votes cast (as opposed to a majority of the full membership of the House) is necessary to elect a speaker. [ 1 ]
On October 25, the full House voted, 220–209, [73] to elect Johnson as the 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives [74] with every Republican member in attendance voting for him. [75] Johnson was also sworn in as speaker on the same day. [73] He is the first speaker in U.S. history from Louisiana. [76]
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House or House speaker, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section II, of the U.S. Constitution.
The speaker election was on track to get deadlocked after a small handful of House Republicans rebelled against Johnson's candidacy, until two holdouts flipped their votes in the final hour
The U.S. House of Representatives speaker said on Sunday he would stick with a "one big bill" strategy to pass President Donald Trump's tax-cut agenda and fund border and military priorities ...
Trump-backed Mike Johnson has been re-elected as US House Speaker in the first round of voting after overcoming a Republican revolt. With a razor-thin Republican majority, he could only afford to ...
On October 3, 2023, McHenry was appointed as Speaker pro tempore of the United States House of Representatives, after a successful motion to vacate led to the removal of Kevin McCarthy from the speakership. [7] Subsequently, he ordered that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi vacate one of her offices in the U.S. Capitol building. [37]
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 ...