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A member of the United States Senate can resign by writing a letter of resignation to the governor of the state that the senator represents. [1] Under Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States, and under the Seventeenth Amendment, in case of a vacancy in the Senate resulting from resignation, the executive authority of the state (today known in every state as the governor ...
Became the first cabinet member to announce her resignation, effective on January 11; [56] was criticized by US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for resigning rather than voting to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. [57] Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Mental Health and Substance Use: Elinore F. McCance-Katz
In his resignation letter, Gaetz told House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) that he does “not intend” to take his seat in the 119th Congress, which convenes Jan. 3 — though there is always the ...
New Jersey's senior senator, Sen. Bob Menendez, announced his plan to resign Aug. 20 from the U.S. Senate to his staff.
A resign-to-run law is a law that requires the current holder of an office to resign from that office before they can run for another office. This is distinct from a dual mandate prohibition, where a person has to resign from their old office to assume the new office, rather than to run for the new office. Resign-to-run laws exist in several ...
But other Senate Democrats, including two facing re-election in November, went beyond simply calling on him to quit and endorsed expulsion if he refuses to resign immediately; Senate rules do not ...
Reps. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and Dean Phillips, D-Minn., are calling on the 89-year-old Feinstein to step down amid concerns about her health and ability to serve in Congress.
The United States Constitution gives the Senate the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. [1] This is distinct from the power over impeachment trials and convictions that the Senate has over executive and judicial federal officials: the Senate ruled in 1798 that senators could not be impeached, but only expelled, while debating the impeachment trial of William Blount, who had already ...