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Unlike the Senate Majority Leader, the House Majority Leader is the second highest-ranking member of their party's House caucus, behind the Speaker of the House. [1] The Majority Leader is responsible for setting the annual legislative agenda, scheduling legislation for consideration, and coordinating committee activity. [2]
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 3, 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.
No party has lost House control after a single congressional term since 1954. The Republicans, led by incumbent Speaker Mike Johnson, narrowly maintained control of the House with a small majority of 220 seats (the narrowest since 1930), despite winning the House popular vote by 4 million votes and a margin of 2.6%.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., walks towards the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on November 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. ... Election 2024 recap: Control of the House on the line ...
Voters have given the once-fractured House GOP a second chance at leading by delivering Republicans another razor-thin House majority in the 2024 ... Mike Johnson as the Republican House leader.
The 119th Congress convenes with new members being sworn in. Republicans hold a narrow majority of 219-215 in the House. ... the top job of Senate majority leader, but all eyes will be on the ...
In the 2022 midterm elections, the Republican Party won control of the House 222–213, taking the majority for the first time since the 115th Congress, while the Democratic Party gained one seat in the Senate, where they already had effective control, and giving them a 51–49-seat majority (with a caucus of 48 Democrats and three independents).
The party has retained its narrow lower chamber majority after wins in Arizona and California gave Republicans the 218 victories needed to clinch its hold on the 435-member House. Current vote ...