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Republican Rep. Don Bacon will serve a fifth term in Congress representing Nebraska’s 2 nd congressional district, according to the Associated Press, which called his race at 6:11 p.m. EST ...
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The final vote began at 11:50 p.m., [133] and the threshold of 215 members present and voting needed for a majority (excluding those present and not voting) was reached at 12:29 a.m. [134] With a majority of votes cast, McCarthy was elected speaker at 12:37 a.m. after the results were read by the clerk. [135] [136
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.
Rep. Jim Jordan lost 20 Republican votes Tuesday in his first round of balloting for House speaker, creating an uphill climb to win the gavel. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is calling on ...
The incumbent speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, was elected to a 4th (2nd consecutive) term, defeating Republican Kevin McCarthy 216–209, with two votes going to other individuals. As only 427 representatives in the 435-member House cast a vote (due to vacancies, absentees, or members voting present), 214 votes were necessary to win.
The historic failure puts the 118th Congress on track to tie or exceed the number of ballots it took to elect a speaker in the 17th Congress, which required 12 ballots in 1821. The all-time record ...
Michael C. Kerr, who had just returned to Congress after losing re-election two years earlier, received a majority of the votes cast and was elected speaker. [81] This was the first time in 16 years, since 1859, that Democrats controlled the House.