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The class of 2024 brings a new cast of characters to Capitol Hill for the second Donald Trump administration as Republicans officially take control of Congress.
The passage of the passage of the short-term funding bill marks the end of the 118th Congress. The Senate will now depart for the holidays, and return on January 3, 2025, when the 119th Congress ...
Congress has a lot to do in 2024: ... But thorny issues remain in a debate that has bedeviled Congress for decades. ... Congress now faces a two-part deadline of Jan. 19 and Feb. 2 to prevent a ...
The future of congressional investigations could be defined by Republican eagerness to probe private industry and less willingness to defer to the Justice Department, experts say. House ...
The 119th Congress has only three states (Maine, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) with senators from different parties, the lowest number of split delegations since direct popular election of senators began in 1914. [b] [1] The majority's margin in the House is smaller than the margin in the Senate for the first time in modern politics.
Speaker Mike Johnson faces a major challenge in the new Congress: the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years. In a dramatic turn of events, Johnson managed to retain the gavel in a single ...
We support the federally sponsored political status referendum authorized and funded by an Act of Congress in 2014 to ascertain the aspirations of the people of Puerto Rico. Once the 2012 local vote for statehood is ratified, Congress should approve an enabling act with terms for Puerto Rico's future admission as the 51st state of the Union". [141]
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.