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The speaker of the House of Representatives is the House's presiding officer, and the position is explicitly established by the Constitution of the United States. [10] The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially after a general election) or when a speaker dies, resigns, or is removed from the position by a vote held during an active term.
In 2015, then-Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., filed a motion to vacate resolution, but unlike this one, it was "non-privileged" and never came up for the vote. Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, resigned ...
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has clinched the Speakership. The ]win came on the 15th ballot, after a long day and moments of drama and chaos on the House floor. McCarthy garnered 216 votes.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced the House of Representatives managers for the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Nancy Pelosi of California, the outgoing speaker, retired from the position and announced her support for Hakeem Jeffries of New York.. During the run-up to the 2019 speaker election, Nancy Pelosi, who had been the Democratic Caucus' leader and nominee in every speaker election since 2003, [28] struck a deal with several caucus members in which she promised that she would retire from the ...
October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election .
Democrats decided as a caucus to vote against McCarthy instead of helping him hold on to his speakership, though House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, said he would be open ...
House Republicans are now voting to kill the rule to change the voting threshold to 217 votes to nominate the speaker candidate, CNN’s Manu Raju reports, citing members. It is currently set at ...