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PHOTO: Rep. Mike Johnson leaves the floor after the House failed to elect a Speaker of the House in the first vote on the first day of the 119th Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol, Jan ...
After the presidential race was called Wednesday morning, Americans are awaiting the final results of races in the U.S. House of Representatives.. All 435 U.S. House of Representatives seats were ...
Representatives were elected from all 435 U.S. congressional districts across each of the 50 states to serve in the 118th United States Congress, as well as 5 non-voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited insular areas.
The first vote comes as the House marks two weeks since Rep Matt Gaetz filed a motion to vacate, which led to seven other Republicans and every Democratic representative present to depose Mr McCarthy.
April 24, 2024: Representative Donald Payne Jr. of New Jersey dies. [39] May 8, 2024: House votes 359–43 to table a resolution removing Mike Johnson from the position of Speaker of the House with 11 Republicans opposed. [40] May 31, 2024: Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia leaves the Democratic Party and registers as an Independent. [41]
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 3, 2020, to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states to the 117th United States Congress, as well as six non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories.
A majority of votes cast (as opposed to a majority of the full membership of the House) is necessary to elect a speaker. By House precedents, votes of present are not to be included in the official vote total, only votes cast for a person by name are; even so, they have been counted on several occasions. [3]
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy declined to take action against another congresswoman who has faced criticism. McCarthy met with Greene yesterday. Democratic congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz ...