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January 3, 2025, 12 p.m. EST: Congress convenes.Members-elect of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives are sworn in. Mike Johnson was re-elected as speaker on the first ballot after initially not receiving enough votes on the roll call, with the vote remaining open until enough members changed votes to support him.
Senate committees are divided, according to relative importance, into three categories: Class A, Class B, and Class C. In general, individual Senators are limited to service on two Class A committees and one Class B committee. Assignment to Class C committees is made without reference to a member's service on any other panels. [17]
The Senate on Tuesday approved its organizing resolution for the 119th Congress, officially setting the composition of committees and greenlighting nomination hearings to take place in the coming ...
The United States Senate Health Subcommittee on Education and the American Family is one of the three subcommittees within the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. It was previously named the Subcommittee on Children and Families. Jurisdiction The Subcommittee has jurisdiction over a wide range of issues including Head Start, child care and child support such as the Child ...
A resolution authorizing the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate to conduct quarterly blood donation drives during the 119th Congress. S.Res. 45: January 29, 2025: A resolution supporting the contributions of Catholic schools in the United States and celebrating the 51st annual National Catholic Schools Week. S.Res. 46: January 29, 2025
The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations has joint jurisdiction with the United States House Committee on Appropriations over all appropriations bills in the United States Congress. [1] Each committee has 12 matching subcommittees, each of which is tasked with working on one of the twelve annual regular appropriations bills.
No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress on Thursday. The 17 standing ...
United States Senate 119th Congress: History; Formed: October 9, 2004 [1] Succeeded: Committee on the District of Columbia (1816) Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (1816) Committee on Retrenchment (1842) Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments (1921) Committee on Government Operations (1952) Committee on Governmental ...