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Additionally, the speaker is second in the presidential line of succession, after the vice president and ahead of the president pro tempore of the Senate. [2] 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 ...
A speaker election is generally held at least every two years; the House has elected a Speaker 129 times since the office was created in 1789. [2] Traditionally, each political party's caucus/conference selects a candidate for speaker from among its senior leaders prior to the vote, and the majority party's nominee is elected.
The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership (Yale University Press; 2010) 292 pages; Examines partisan pressures and other factors that shaped the leadership of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; focuses on the period since 1940. Grossman, Mark. Speakers of the House of Representatives (Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2009 ...
The Republican-controlled 118th Congress has set many firsts. On Jan. 3, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy became the first candidate in the majority party to lose a bid for the House speakership in ...
House Yes 12.6* 41 Mike Kelly: Republican Pennsylvania: House Yes 12.4* 42 Mike Conaway: Republican Texas House No 12.4* 43 Ralph Abraham: Republican Louisiana: House No 12.4* 44 Markwayne Mullin: Republican Oklahoma Senate [a] Yes 11.4* 45 Ann Wagner: Republican Missouri: House Yes 11.1* 46 Jackie Speier: Democratic California House No 11.0 ...
The 118th Congress is the first in US history to need multiple ballots more than once to name a speaker. How this Congress keeps setting records with its speaker votes, in one chart Skip to main ...
The speaker is the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives. The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially, after Election Day) or when a speaker dies, resigns, or is removed from the position intra-term. Since 1839, the House has elected speakers by roll call vote. [16]
Republican speaker of the House Thomas Brackett Reed (1895–1899) The late 19th and early 20th centuries also saw a dramatic increase in the power of the speaker of the House. The rise of the speaker's influence began in the 1890s, during the tenure of Republican Thomas Brackett Reed. "Czar Reed", as he was nicknamed, attempted to put into ...