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A page from the June 14 to 28, 1935, Congressional Record. The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, published by the United States Government Publishing Office and issued when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record Index is updated daily online and published monthly.
Congress.gov is the online database of United States Congress legislative information. Congress.gov is a joint project of the Library of Congress, the House, the Senate and the Government Publishing Office. [1] Congress.gov was in beta in 2012, and beta testing ended in late 2013. [1]
One member cannot cast a proxy vote for another. [4] Congressional votes are recorded on an online database. [140] [141] After passage by both houses, a bill is enrolled and sent to the president for approval. [125] The president may sign it making it law or veto it, perhaps returning it to Congress with the president's objections.
The House reserves roll-call votes for the election of the Speaker, as a roll-call of all 435 representatives takes quite some time; normally, members vote by electronic device. In the case of a tie, the motion in question fails. In the Senate, the Vice President may (if present) cast the tiebreaking vote.
Introduced by Reps. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Garret Graves, R-La., the bill was passed by the House in a 327-75 vote late Tuesday night, after a last-ditch effort to derail it by members of ...
The 119th Congress convenes with new members being sworn in. Republicans hold a narrow majority of 219-215 in the House. ... but all eyes will be on the lower chamber as the House votes for speaker.
Tauberer started govtrack.us when he was a student at Princeton University.In 2005, GovTrack was the first to make U.S. federal legislative information comprehensively available in an open, structured data format for researchers, journalists, other public interest projects, and anyone to freely reuse for any purpose.
The 118th Congress is the first in US history to need multiple ballots more than once to name a speaker. How this Congress keeps setting records with its speaker votes, in one chart Skip to main ...