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Hal Rogers wins 23 rd term. Republican Hal Rogers, the longest serving member of Congress, won reelection in District 5.. Rogers, 86, has was first elected to the seat in 1980, has served on the ...
PHOTO: Rep. Mike Johnson holds the gavel after being presented it by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries after being re-elected as Speaker of the House on the first day of the 119th Congress at the U.S. Capitol ...
Follow along with our live-updating results for the U.S. presidential race and congressional races across the country with maps that show the balance of power between Democrats and Republicans on ...
U.S. House of Representatives [a] Arizona House of Representatives U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Corporal: 1979 [1] Delaware: Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) 3rd (93rd overall) No Open seat; replacing Tom Carper (D) U.S. House of Representatives [b] Delaware Secretary of Labor 1962 [2] Indiana: Jim Banks (R) 2nd (92nd overall) No Open seat; replacing Mike ...
Two states (Colorado and Minnesota) elected a split house delegation. Sarah McBride of Delaware became the first openly transgender member elected to the United States Congress. [12] This was the third presidential election cycle in a row in which the victorious presidential party lost seats in the House while holding its majority.
[23] [24] The new speaker then administers the oath en masse to the rest of the members of the House. [25] To be elected speaker, a candidate must receive a majority of the current votes cast, as opposed to a majority of the entire membership of the House—at the time 218 votes, in a House of 434 members, due to one vacancy caused by the death ...
Good morning and welcome to The Independent’s live coverage as the 119th Congress convenes in Washington DC and the House of Representatives elects its speaker, with Donald Trump’s Republican ...
Consequently, several Anti-Administration members voted strategically for former speaker Frederick Muhlenberg, a Pro-Administration moderate, who received a majority of the votes cast in the 3rd ballot and was elected speaker. This was the first speaker of the House election to be contested primarily on a partisan basis. [10] [11]