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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.
The roll call vote is underway. With one Republican absent Tuesday, Jordan cannot afford to lose more than three GOP votes. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska voted for Kevin McCarthy, the first ...
WASHINGTON - Here's a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with roll call votes this week, the Senate also passed, by voice vote, a resolution (S. Res. 418 ...
WASHINGTON - Here's a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with roll call votes this week, the House passed these measures by voice vote: a bill (H.R. 4666), to ...
If no candidate receives a majority vote, then the roll call is repeated until a speaker is elected. Multiple rounds of voting have been necessary 16 times since 1789, almost all before the American Civil War. In the 20th century only one election went to multiple ballots (in 1923). [2]
If no candidate wins a majority of the "votes cast for a person by name," then the roll call is repeated until a speaker is elected. [2] Multiple roll calls have been necessary only 15 times since 1789; and, at the time, not since 1923 (68th Congress), when a closely divided House needed 9 ballots to elect Frederick H. Gillett speaker. [4]
WASHINGTON - Here's a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with the week's roll call votes, the House also passed by voice vote the following measures: the I-27 ...
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]