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This is a list of the several United States Congresses, since their beginning in 1789, including their beginnings, endings, and the dates of their individual sessions. Each elected bicameral Congress (of the two chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives ) lasts for two years and begins on January 3 of odd-numbered years.
The 119th Congress convenes with new members being sworn in. Republicans hold a narrow majority of 219-215 in the House. Factbox-Important dates to watch as Republicans take control in the US Congress
January 3, 2025, 12 p.m. EST: Congress convenes.Members-elect of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives are sworn in. Mike Johnson was re-elected as speaker on the first ballot after initially not receiving enough votes on the roll call, with the vote remaining open until enough members changed votes to support him.
The 117th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It convened in Washington, D.C. , on January 3, 2021, during the final weeks of Donald Trump's first presidency and the first two years of Joe ...
Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) listen as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the ...
1:05 p.m. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., gavels in the joint session of Congress. 1:09 p.m. At the ellipse, Trump ends his speech by telling the crowd to march on Congress.
†John Howard's address before the Joint Meeting of Congress in 2002 was originally scheduled for September 12, 2001, but was interrupted by the September 11 attacks. He was already in Washington when the attacks occurred, and sat in on the September 12 session of the House of Representatives.
118th Congress House member pin from both the 1st and 2nd session. The 118th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.