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To be a senator, a person must be aged 30 or over. To be a Representative, a person must be aged 25 or older. This is specified in the U.S. Constitution. Most states in the U.S. also have age requirements for the offices of Governor, State Senator, and State Representative.[74]
The United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 5) [1] gives the House of Representatives the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. Expulsion of a Representative is rare: only six members of the House have been expelled in its history.
Expulsion is the most serious form of disciplinary action that can be taken against a member of Congress. [1] The United States Constitution (Article I, Section 5, Clause 2) provides that "Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member."
Clark resigned in May 1900 before the full Senate took a vote. [6] Clark would serve a term in Congress from 1901 to 1907. [7] Victor L. Berger (SP-Wisconsin) was not seated after his election to the House in 1918 because he had been convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917. After the House refused to seat him, Wisconsin held a special ...
Democratic Rep. Al Green may face a censure by the House after he was removed for disrupting President Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night.. Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse from Washington ...
The race for Senate District 4 quickly became a shoe-in for incumbent Sen. Tara Nethercott, R-Cheyenne, after her sole Republican challenger, Gregg Smith, pulled his name from ...
The 6th district has been represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Emily Randall, a Democrat from Bremerton, since January 2025. Established after the 1930 U.S. census , the 6th district is a working class district, with many of its jobs provided by tourism and the timber industry on the Pacific and Juan de Fuca coasts, and by the ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson removed Ohio Republican Mike Turner as chairman of the powerful House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) on Wednesday in response to a direct request ...