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Still, there remained bipartisan agreement that the District of Columbia – which in 1970 had more residents than 10 individual states [a] — deserved at least some representation in the U.S. Congress. Federal legislation to recreate a congressional delegate position for D.C. was first seriously debated by Congress in 1970.
The 95th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. , from January 3, 1977, to January 3, 1979, during the final weeks of Gerald Ford 's presidency and the first two years ...
In many years, elections were even held after the legal start of the Congress, although typically before the start of the first session. In the elections for the 1st Congress, five states held elections in 1788, electing a total of 29 Representatives, and six held elections in 1789, electing a total of 30 Representatives.
Voters chose representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states to serve in the 116th United States Congress. Non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited U.S. territories [f] were also elected. On Election Day, Republicans had held a House majority since January 2011. [4]
Dillon Gentry, sales representative and candidate for North Carolina's 5th congressional district in 2018 [94] Wayne King, deputy chief of staff to U.S. Representative Mark Meadows [97] Joey Osborne [94] Vance Patterson, businessman and candidate for North Carolina's 11th congressional district in 2012 [94] Albert Wiley Jr., perennial candidate ...
Nebraska's 3rd congressional district: Tom Osborne; Nevada's 2nd congressional district: Jim Gibbons; New York's 24th congressional district: Sherwood Boehlert; Ohio's 4th congressional district: Mike Oxley; Oklahoma's 5th congressional district: Ernest Istook; Tennessee's 1st congressional district: Bill Jenkins
The 1972 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 7, 1972, to elect U.S. Representatives to serve in the 93rd United States Congress. This was the first election held after the 1970 United States redistricting cycle. It coincided with the landslide reelection victory of President Richard M. Nixon.
Events that have occurred during the 118th Congress include the January 2023 speakership election, the 2023 debt-ceiling crisis, the removal of Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, the ensuing October 2023 speakership election, and the expulsion of George Santos. No party has lost House control after a single congressional term since 1954.