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This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of November 13, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. [1][2] The House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills; those that are also passed by the Senate are ...
The Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections. The Democrats gained a net total of 41 seats from the total number of seats they had won in the 2016 elections. This was their largest gain of House seats in an election since the 1974 elections, when the Democrats gained 49 House seats.
In the 2022 midterm elections, the Republican Party won control of the House 222–213, taking the majority for the first time since the 115th Congress, while the Democratic Party gained one seat in the Senate, where they already had effective control, and giving them a 51–49-seat majority (with a caucus of 48 Democrats and three independents).
The 2020 United States House of Representatives electionswere held on November 3, 2020, to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districtsacross each of the 50 U.S. statesto the 117th United States Congress, as well as six non-voting delegatesfrom the District of Columbiaand the inhabited U.S. territories.
The 117th 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 convened in Washington, D.C., on January 3, 2021, during the final weeks of Donald Trump's first presidency and the first two years of Joe Biden ...
Allocation of seats by state, as percentage of overall number of representatives in the House, 1789–2020 census. United States congressional apportionment is the process [1] by which seats in the United States House of Representatives are distributed among the 50 states according to the most recent decennial census mandated by the United States Constitution.
There is currently no Republican equivalent in the U.S. House of Representatives. List of House Democratic Assistants to the Leader. 1999–2003: Rosa DeLauro; 2003–2007: John Spratt; 2007–2009: Xavier Becerra; 2009–2011: Chris Van Hollen; List of House Assistant Democratic Leaders. 2011–2019: Jim Clyburn