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A special election was held on May 5, 2015, to fill the vacancy of Michael Grimm, who resigned from Congress on January 5, 2015, after pleading guilty to tax evasion. [1] Local party leaders in Brooklyn and Staten Island selected their nominees, replacing a primary. [2]
The election was held on September 10, 2015, and won by Republican Darin LaHood, who was sworn in on September 17, 2015. [4] Mississippi's 1st congressional district: Representative Alan Nunnelee died on February 6, 2015. [5] The election was won by Republican Trent Kelly, who was sworn into office on June 2, 2015. [6] New York's 11th ...
The 1914 midterm elections became the first year that all regular Senate elections were held in even-numbered years, coinciding with the House elections. The ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 established the direct election of senators, instead of having them elected directly by state legislatures.
President Barack Obama gave the State of the Union Address on January 20, 2015 Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress on March 3, 2015 Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, and Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew defended the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 23, 2015 Pope Francis ...
On October 29, 2015, during the 114th United States Congress, an election for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was necessitated by the impending resignation of John Boehner, set for October 30. [1] Boehner was the first speaker to resign in the middle of a Congressional term since Jim Wright in 1989. [2]
The race in California’s 47th Congressional District has a large field of Democratic candidates vying for the House seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Katie Porter. ... from 2004 to 2015 ...
A special election for New York's 11th congressional district was held on May 5, 2015, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Michael Grimm. Grimm, a member of the Republican Party , announced on December 30, 2014, that he would resign from the House effective January 5, 2015, and not take his seat for a third term following his ...
This provides a summary of the results of elections to the United States House of Representatives from the elections held in 1856 to the present. This time period corresponds to the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Party Systems of the United States. For the purposes of counting partisan divisions in the U.S. House of Representatives ...