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This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of December 8, 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.
Governor Glenn Youngkin called a special election for February 21, 2023, with the general election filing deadline set for December 23, 2022. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Democratic Party chose to hold its " firehouse primary " on December 20, just 8 days after the special election date was set.
The 118th United States Congress began on January 3, 2023. There were seven new senators (two Democrats, five Republicans) and 74 new representatives (34 Democrats, 40 Republicans), as well as one new delegate (a Republican), at the start of its first session.
September 12, 2023: House opens an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. September 29, 2023: Senator Dianne Feinstein of California dies. [26] October 3, 2023: House votes 216–210 to remove Kevin McCarthy from the position of Speaker of the House through a motion to vacate the chair by Matt Gaetz of Florida. [27] Patrick McHenry becomes Speaker ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a slim 220-215 majority when the next Congress gets underway next month after Democrats picked up a seat in ...
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber ... and Republican George Santos was expelled in 2023 after he was implicated in fraud by both a ...
More Democrats vote to raise the debt limit than Republicans as the bill heads to the Senate
As the clerk of the House, Cheryl Johnson oversaw the 2023 election of a speaker as the acting presiding officer. The speaker is the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives . The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially , after Election Day ) or when a speaker dies, resigns, or is removed from ...