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January 5, 2017: House of Representatives condemned United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334. [6] [7] January 6, 2017: Joint session counted and certified the electoral votes of the 2016 presidential election. January 11–12, 2017: Senate, in an all-night session, took first steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act, (ACA). [8]
It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 2015, to January 3, 2017, during the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency. The seats in the House were apportioned based on the 2010 United States census. [1] [2] [3] The 2014 elections gave the Republicans control of the Senate and the House for the first time since the 109th Congress.
There were six special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 2017 during the 115th United States Congress. All of the elections were won by the party previously holding the seat. Therefore, there were no net changes in party.
Freshman members on the Capitol steps. The 115th United States Congress began on January 3, 2017. There were seven new senators (five Democrats, two Republicans) and 52 new representatives (25 Democrats, 27 Republicans), as well as one new delegate (a Republican), at the start of its first session.
Control of the Congress from 1855 to 2025 Popular vote and house seats won by party. Party divisions of United States Congresses have played a central role on the organization and operations of both chambers of the United States Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives—since its establishment as the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States in 1789.
In his first two years, when the Democrats controlled the House and the Senate, Biden succeeded in passing the American Rescue plan, the Investment and Jobs Act, and the Chips and Science Act.
It is a tactic Jeffries deployed more than a dozen times since Republicans took control of the House in January 2023 on bills ranging from government funding to an $895 billion bill authorizing ...
April 26, 2017 Enforcing Statutory Prohibitions on Federal Control of Education. Seeks to reduce federal intervention in education by ordering the Department of Education to review regulations and determine if they overstep the federal government's authority. Read Order Read article ; April 26, 2017 Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act