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  1. There are currently six non-voting members: a delegate representing the District of Columbia, a resident commissioner representing Puerto Rico, as well as one delegate for each of the other four permanently inhabited U.S. territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

  2. Non-voting members may vote in a House committee they are a member in, and they can introduce legislation. [1] [2] There are currently six non-voting members: a delegate representing the federal district of Washington D.C. , a resident commissioner representing Puerto Rico , and one delegate for each of the other four US Territories with people ...

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  4. This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of May 6, 2024, the 118th Congress). 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. There ...

    District
    Member
    Party
    Party
    Republican
    Mobile County Commission
    Republican
    Republican
    Calhoun County Commissioner Alabama House ...
    Republican
    Haleyville Municipal Judge
  5. The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they comprise the national bicameral legislature of the United States. [1] [2] The House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills; those that are also passed by the Senate ...

    District
    Member
    Party
    Party
    Republican
    Mobile County Commission
    Republican
    Republican
    Calhoun County Commissioner Alabama House ...
    Republican
    Haleyville Municipal Judge
    • January 3, 2023
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  6. United States congressional non-voting members. The origin of non-voting delegates in the U.S. House of Representatives goes back to the Continental Congress when they established the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.

  7. Apr 12, 2024 · Non-voting members serve exclusively in the House of Representatives; the Senate has no non-voting members (with the exception of the Vice President of the United States, who may vote only to break ties) and no members representing the territories or the District of Columbia.

  8. Congress has 535 voting members: 100 senators and 435 representatives. The U.S. vice president has a vote in the Senate only when senators are evenly divided. The House of Representatives has six non-voting members. The sitting of a Congress is for a two-year term, at present, beginning every other January.