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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.
House GOP is now voting to kill the rule to change the voting threshold to 217 votes to nominate the speaker candidate, per members. It is currently set at 111 votes. — Manu Raju (@mkraju ...
Both voted to object to the 2020 election results on January 6 (Mr Roy, meanwhile, voted to certify the election). ... Unclear if House will vote on speaker today. Thursday 12 October 2023 20:30 ...
Rep. Jim Jordan lost 20 Republican votes Tuesday in his first round of balloting for House speaker, creating an uphill climb to win the gavel. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is calling on ...
The final vote began at 11:50 p.m., [133] and the threshold of 215 members present and voting needed for a majority (excluding those present and not voting) was reached at 12:29 a.m. [134] With a majority of votes cast, McCarthy was elected speaker at 12:37 a.m. after the results were read by the clerk.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy lost five more votes for House speaker on Thursday afternoon as the embarrassment for him and the Republican Party continued. Kevin McCarthy loses 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th ...
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections, to elect the 441 members of the House of Representatives - representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states, as well as 6 non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories to the United ...
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 ...