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Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (WV) and Speaker of the House Jim Wright (TX) 1988: Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (WV) and Speaker of the House Jim Wright (TX) President George H. W. Bush (R) 1989 [a] Democratic Speaker of the House Jim Wright (TX) and Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (TX) [1] 1990: Speaker of the House Tom Foley (WA) 1991
In reality, the likely next Speaker of the House will be either current Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) or current House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), depending on the outcome ...
Every member of Congress can bring one guest to the State of the Union address. The president may invite up to 24 guests to be seated in a box with the First Lady. The Speaker of the House may invite up to 24 guests in the Speaker's box. Seating for Congress on the main floor is by a first-in, first-served basis with no reservations.
The Speaker now has the authority to direct answers to a starred question asked by a member in case of his or her absence on the day their name was called. A member is now required to make a statement in the House correcting the reply given by him or her earlier, irrespective of whether the reply given pertained to a starred or unstarred or a ...
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is inviting President Donald Trump to address a joint session of Congress on March 4. In a letter first obtained by Fox News Digital, Johnson wrote to the new ...
The Speaker then swears-in the rest of the body, en masse. Then the House must adopt a rules package to govern daily operations. Only then can the House go about debating bills, voting and ...
Similar to a State of the Union Address, it was delivered before the 115th United States Congress in the Chamber of the House of Representatives in the United States Capitol. [6] Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Paul Ryan, accompanied by Mike Pence, the vice president in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
The 119th Congress will begin on Friday, ushering in a new era of Republican control in Washington that will start with a high-stakes leadership fight to pick the next House speaker.