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The house cannot hold an official session in the absence of the speaker or their designated speaker pro tempore. Speaker K. Leroy Irvis was the first African-American elected speaker of any state legislature in the United States since the Reconstruction era. Current Speaker Joanna McClinton is the first female and first female African-American ...
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. [1] [2] It is the largest full-time state legislature in the country.
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Joanna E. McClinton (born August 19, 1982) is an American politician from Pennsylvania currently serving as the 141st Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since February 28, 2023. A member of the Democratic Party , she is the first woman to serve as Speaker.
NBC News pioneered the morning news program when it launched TODAY in 1952 with Dave Garroway as host. Now, over 70 years later, the TODAY broadcast features a team of familiar faces.
Nearly 12 years after a grieving mother approached her state representative with a plea to ban texting while driving, Shapiro signed Paul Miller Jr.’s law, which makes it a primary offense for ...
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]
House Speaker Mike Johnson attends a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 5, 2023. Credit - Drew Angerer—Getty Images. This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter.