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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.
WASHINGTON - Here's a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with roll call votes this week, the Senate also passed, by voice vote, a resolution (S. Res. 418 ...
If no candidate receives a majority vote, then the roll call is repeated until a speaker is elected. Multiple rounds of voting have been necessary 16 times since 1789, almost all before the American Civil War. In the 20th century only one election went to multiple ballots (in 1923). [2]
WASHINGTON - Here's a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with roll call votes this week, the House passed these measures by voice vote: a bill (H.R. 4666), to ...
House Vote 5: EXPELLING HOUSE MEMBER: The House has rejected a resolution (H. Res. 773), sponsored by Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, R-N.Y., that would have expelled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from the ...
The speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. 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 removed from the position intra-term. Since 1839, the House elected speakers by roll call. [1]
The Louisiana Republican only got 113 of his fellow GOP-ers’ votes today, well short of the 217 total votes Mr Scalise would need to formally win the speaker’s gavel on the House floor in a ...
Following a congressional election and the adjournment of the prior congress, there being no speaker, the House clerk summons, convenes, and calls the House to order. After prayer offered by the House chaplain, the clerk leads the representatives in the Pledge of Allegiance before ordering a roll call conducted by the reading clerk. The clerk ...