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Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) Party leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives. Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives, also known as floor leaders, are congresspeople who coordinate legislative initiatives ...
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of September 23, 2024, the 118th 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.
Official seal of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Sam Rayburn, longest serving speaker of the House, 17 years, 53 days (cumulative) Tip O'Neill, longest uninterrupted tenure of office, 9 years, 350 days. Theodore M. Pomeroy, shortest tenure of office, 1 day. Rank.
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they comprise the national bicameral legislature of the United States. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills; those that are also passed by the Senate ...
Dean of the House from March 18, 2022 3 Chris Smith: R New Jersey 4 4 Steny Hoyer: D Maryland 5: May 19, 1981 Majority Leader 5 Marcy Kaptur: D Ohio 9: January 3, 1983 6 Peter DeFazio: D Oregon 4: January 3, 1987 Chair: Transportation & Infrastructure 7 Fred Upton: R Michigan 6 8 Nancy Pelosi: D California 12: June 2, 1987 Speaker of the House ...
Status: Presiding officer: Seat: United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.: Nominator: Party caucus / conference (primarily): Appointer: House of Representatives: Term length: At the House's pleasure; elected at the beginning of the new Congress by a majority of the representatives-elect, and upon a vacancy during a Congress.
Seniority calculation. Seniority is calculated by: Number of total terms served (subtracting one term from the number of non-consecutive terms) Number of consecutive terms served. Alphabetically by last name [1] An additional clause applies for representatives that have a prior tenure of less than two terms.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives electionswere held on November 3, 2020, to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districtsacross each of the 50 U.S. statesto the 117th United States Congress, as well as six non-voting delegatesfrom the District of Columbiaand the inhabited U.S. territories.