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House of Representatives: Republican/NPL: January 3, 1933: January 8, 1935: 2 years, 5 days Consuelo N. Bailey Vermont: House of Representatives: Republican: January 8, 1953: January 6, 1955: 1 year, 363 days Marion West Higgins New Jersey: House of Representatives: Republican: January 12, 1965: January 11, 1966: 364 days Edness Kimball Wilkins ...
The House elects a new speaker by roll call vote when it first convenes after a general election for its two-year term, or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position intra-term. A majority of votes cast (as opposed to a majority of the full membership of the House) is necessary to elect a speaker. [1]
The 118th United States Congress began on January 3, 2023. There were seven new senators (two Democrats, five Republicans) and 74 new representatives (34 Democrats, 40 Republicans), as well as one new delegate (a Republican), at the start of its first session. Additionally, three senators (two Democrats, one Republican) and nine representatives ...
U.S. House of Representatives seniority Rank Representative Party District Seniority date Previous service [2] Notes 1 Don Young: R Alaska at-large: March 6, 1973 Dean of the House Died on March 18, 2022. 2 Hal Rogers: R Kentucky 5: January 3, 1981 Dean of the House from March 18, 2022 3 Chris Smith: R New Jersey 4 4 Steny Hoyer: D Maryland 5 ...
In 1917, Montana was the first state to send a woman to the House of Representatives and to Congress; in 2023, Vermont became the most recent state to send its first woman to the House, and in 2025, North Dakota will do the same to Congress. Women have also been sent to Congress from five of the six territories of the United States; the final ...
The 2023 State of the Union Address was given by the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, on February 7, 2023, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the House of Representatives to the 118th Congress. The televised address was viewed by 27.3 million people across the networks that broadcast it. [a]
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.
While Republicans won a majority of seats during the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections, beginning in June of 2023, members of the Republican far-right Freedom Caucus began blocking Republican proposed bills in the House culminating in the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House in 2023.