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The House elects a new speaker by roll call vote when it first convenes after a general election for its two-year term, or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position intra-term. A majority of votes cast (as opposed to a majority of the full membership of the House) is necessary to elect a speaker. [ 1 ]
Republicans retained their slim majority in the House of Representatives, despite losing a seat, during the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections. [17] With a two seat larger majority, in the January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, a faction of the Republican majority, mostly represented by the Freedom Caucus, refused to support Republican ...
The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership (Yale University Press; 2010) 292 pages; Examines partisan pressures and other factors that shaped the leadership of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; focuses on the period since 1940. Grossman, Mark. Speakers of the House of Representatives (Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2009 ...
In some high-stakes political drama, the House of Representatives on Friday voted to reelect House Speaker Mike Johnson to lead the 119th Congress by a razor-thin margin. Johnson, a Louisiana ...
The U.S. House of Representatives speaker said on Sunday he would stick with a "one big bill" strategy to pass President Donald Trump's tax-cut agenda and fund border and military priorities ...
More than three weeks ago, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, of South Carolina joined seven other Republicans and all Democrats to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the job.
On October 25, the full House voted, 220–209, [73] to elect Johnson as the 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives [74] with every Republican member in attendance voting for him. [75] Johnson was also sworn in as speaker on the same day. [73] He is the first speaker in U.S. history from Louisiana. [76]
The candidate to become speaker needs a majority of the votes from House members who are present and voting. Historically, the magical number has been 218 out of the 435 members of the House.