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January 3, 2025, 12 p.m. EST: Congress convenes.Members-elect of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives are sworn in. Mike Johnson was re-elected as speaker on the first ballot after initially not receiving enough votes on the roll call, with the vote remaining open until enough members changed votes to support him.
Roughly 1,000 government positions require Senate confirmation through a majority vote in the 100-seat chamber. Most of Trump's Cabinet picks easily won confirmation during his first 2017-2021 ...
If the Senate invokes cloture, the debate does not necessarily end immediately; instead, it is limited to up to 30 additional hours unless increased by another three-fifths vote. The longest filibuster speech in the Senate's history was delivered by Strom Thurmond (D-SC), who spoke for over 24 hours in an unsuccessful attempt to block the ...
August 4, 2022: The Senate voted 95–1 in favor of ratifying the accession of Sweden and Finland into NATO. [14] August 7, 2022: The Senate voted 51–50 to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. August 8, 2022: The FBI executes a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
According to the Senate plan, the first bill would focus on Trump's agenda for border security, energy deregulation and defense spending, while the second would extend tax cuts from the 2017 Tax ...
[d] Following the loss of the Democratic super-majority in the Senate, House Democrats agreed to pass the Senate bill, while Senate Democrats agreed to use the reconciliation process to pass a second bill that would make various adjustments to the first bill. [32] The original Senate bill was passed by the House and signed into law by President ...
Trump won't get a vote in this secret-ballot race, but his influence over it is palpable. Many Republicans see Trump's comfortable victory in Tuesday's elections coupled with Senate Republicans ...
Democrats retained control of the United States House of Representatives, while Republicans briefly retained control of the Senate until January 20, 2021, because Democrats won both regular and special Senate elections in Georgia on January 5, 2021.