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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. [3]
Next, the full House will vote on who the next speaker will be. Here is how this will go: Republicans voted behind closed doors. According to GOP rules, the vote was done by secret ballot and the ...
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.
Mr Trump could be elected as the next speaker as, under the rules of Congress, the speaker does not have to be a current sitting member in the House. That said, every speaker in the history of the ...
After three weeks of paralysis in Congress, the House has elected a new speaker, and business can resume. Lawmakers voted in U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, a relatively low-profile social ...
PHOTO: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries shakes hands with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson after presenting him with the gavel during the first day of the 119th Congress in the House Chamber ...
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 ...
There were some hints that McHenry was next in line. On Jan. 9, the House chair announced “that the Speaker has delivered to the Clerk a letter dated January 7, 2023, listing Members in the ...