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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday announced plans to shift into two key roles in the next Congress as he prepares to hand over the torch as the upper chamber’s top ...
House Republican leaders will choose new chairs for a number of influential committees this week, people who will have the power to help deliver on President-elect Trump’s priorities in the GOP ...
For more on the GOP agenda in the new Congress, watch CNN’s “Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju” this Sunday at 8 a.m. ET and 11 a.m ET. Republicans from Capitol Hill to the White House ...
Sittings of the House are generally open to the public; visitors must obtain a House Gallery pass from a congressional office. [55] Sittings are broadcast live on television and have been streamed live on C-SPAN since March 19, 1979, [56] and on HouseLive, the official streaming service operated by the Clerk, since the early 2010s.
The vast majority of committee hearings are open to the public, as required under Senate rules. But a hearing, like other committee meetings, may be closed for specific reasons stated in Senate rules (Rule XXVI, paragraph 5(b)). A committee may close a hearing if it involves national security information;
In 2022, the Committee held ten live televised public hearings [4] that presented evidence of Trump's seven-part plan to overturn the 2020 elections; this included live interviews under oath (of many Republicans and some Trump loyalists), [5] [6] as well as recorded sworn deposition testimony and video footage from other sources.
Dec. 25: The electoral votes must be received by this date by the president of the Senate - a role held by the vice president, currently Harris - and the archivist. 2025
In the 1st Congress (1789–1791), the House appointed roughly six hundred select committees over the course of two years. [3] By the 3rd Congress (1793–95), Congress had three permanent standing committees, the House Committee on Elections, the House Committee on Claims, and the Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills, but more than three hundred fifty select committees. [4]