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This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 20, 2025, the 119th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
2.84 75.4 January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 36: Lyndon B. Johnson: Democratic 325 11128–11451: 5.16 62.9 November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969 37: Richard Nixon: Republican 346 11452–11797: 5.56 62.3 January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974 38: Gerald Ford: Republican 169 11798–11966: 2.45 69.1 August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977 39 ...
When the House voted, each state delegation cast one vote, and the vote of a majority of states was necessary to choose a president. If second-place candidates were tied, then the Senate broke the tie. A quorum in the House consisted of at least one member from two-thirds of the state delegations; there was no special quorum for the Senate.
The Appointments Clause of the Constitution (Article II, section 2, clause 2), empowers the president of the United States to appoint "Officers of the United States" with the "advice and consent" of the U.S. Senate. The same clause also allows lower-level officials to be appointed without the advice and consent process. [1] [2]
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, near the Belarus border in the Soviet Union. [1]
1977 and 1978: The first list of essential medicines was drawn up, [31]: 17 and a year later the ambitious goal of "Health For All" was declared. [31]: 18 Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Programme read the news that smallpox had been globally eradicated, 1980. 1986: The WHO began its global programme on HIV/AIDS.
In 1972, the Bangladeshi government issued a presidential decree in 1972 changing the cadet colleges to government colleges. A delegation of former cadets visited Ziaur Rahman, who helped them obtain an appointment with Osmani. Osmani discussed the issue with President Mujib Rahman, and the decree was withdrawn. [123]