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Before an amendment to the law in 2022, members of Congress could object to any state's vote count, provided objection is presented in writing and is signed by at least one member of each house of Congress. In 2022, the number of members required to make an objection was raised to one-fifth of each house.
The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 119th United States Congress . Party affiliation
The 119th United States Congress began on January 3, 2025. There were nine new senators (four Democrats, five Republicans) and 63 new representatives (33 Democrats, 30 Republicans), as well as two new delegates (a Democrat and a Republican), at the start of its first session.
The total number of state members is capped by the Reapportionment Act of 1929. [2] In addition, each of the five inhabited U.S. territories and the federal district of Washington, D. C. , sends a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives.
January 3, 2023, 12 p.m. EST: Congress convenes. Members-elect of the United States Senate are sworn in, but members-elect of the United States House of Representatives cannot be sworn as the House adjourns for the day without electing a speaker. [21] January 3–7, 2023: The election for the House speakership takes 15 ballots.
For instance, if a Republican won a Senate election by 15 percentage points in a state Trump carried by just 2 points, that's a pretty strong candidate — stronger, say, than a Republican Senate ...
The candidate with the highest number of votes (provided it was a majority of the electoral votes) became the president, and the second-place candidate became the vice president. This presented a problem during the presidential election of 1800 when Aaron Burr received the same number of electoral votes as Thomas Jefferson and challenged ...
Bill Cunningham, state senator from the 18th district, president pro tempore of the state senate, and former state representative from the 35th district (2011-13) Cristina Castro, state senator from the 22nd district; Kate Daniels, member of the Democratic State Central Committee; Vera Davis, wife of U.S. representative Danny Davis