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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
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 ...
When reporters asked Mike Johnson to respond to President Donald Trump’s pardons for more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the House speaker had a ...
Johnson can only afford to lose two votes from the Republican majority if he wants to remain speaker of the House ... Emmer has been a member of Congress since 2015 and was one of the people who ...
The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress, biennially, after a general election, or when a speaker dies, resigns, or is removed from the position during a congressional term. At the start of a new Congress, those voting to elect the speaker are representatives-elect, as a speaker must be selected before members are sworn ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.