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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 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 ...
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 ]
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 Republicans applaud Mike Johnson, R-La., after he was reelected as Speaker of the House during the first session of the 119th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Jan. 3, 2025.
The speaker of the House of Representatives is the House's presiding officer, and the position is explicitly established by the Constitution of the United States. [10] The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially after a general election) or when a speaker dies, resigns, or is removed from the position by a vote held during an active term.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives nominated Steve Scalise to be the chamber's next speaker on Wednesday, a challenging role after hard-right members of his party cut short the ...
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.