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Senate Minority Whip: Dick Durbin: IL: January 3, 2025 Party whip since January 3, 2005: Chair of the Senate Democratic Steering and Policy Committee: Amy Klobuchar: MN: January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Democratic Strategic Communications Committee: Cory Booker: NJ: January 3, 2025: Vice Chairs of the Senate Democratic Caucus: Mark Warner ...
This transition date, set by the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ensures that all newly elected members of the House of Representatives and Senate can begin their terms and address key ...
The United States Congress is comprised of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate, or upper chamber, has 100 seats — two per state. Of these, 34 are up for ...
Senate Vote 8: MILITARY SALES TO TURKEY: The Senate has rejected a motion to discharge from committee a resolution (S.J. Res. 60), sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that would have disapproved ...
Those elections resulted in a Republican majority in the Senate, meaning the winner of the leadership election would become Senate majority leader. [3] The Senate majority leader serves as the chief representative of their party in the Senate, and is considered the most powerful member of the Senate.
The Senate and the United States House of Representatives (which is the lower chamber of Congress) comprise the federal bicameral legislature of the United States. Together, the Senate and the House have the authority under Article One of the U.S. Constitution to pass or defeat federal legislation.
The Senate and House of Representatives are taking sharply different approaches. The U.S. Senate will vote Wednesday on three bills laying out funding plans for agriculture, military and veterans ...
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.