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Apr 23, 2024 · Nancy Pelosi (born March 26, 1940, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) is an American Democratic politician who is a congresswoman from California in the U.S. House of Representatives (1987– ), where she served as speaker (2007–11 and 2019–23); she is the first woman to have become speaker of the House.
James Polk is the only Speaker (1835–1839) to have also served as President of the United States (1845–1849). As presiding officer of the House of Representatives, the speaker holds a variety of powers over the House and is ceremonially the highest-ranking legislative official in the U.S. government. [83]
Rep. Mike Johnson. Elected by the whole of the House of Representatives, the Speaker acts as leader of the House and combines several roles: the institutional role of presiding officer and administrative head of the House, the role of leader of the majority party in the House, and the representative role of an elected member of the House.
The speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution. The speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House, and is simultaneously the body's presiding officer, the de ...
Nancy Pelosi served as the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House. She made history again in January 2019 when she regained her position second-in-line to the presidency – the first person to do so in more than six decades.
Jan 7, 2023 · Kevin McCarthy has been sworn in as House speaker of the 118th Congress. After days of deadlock and major concessions, McCarthy secured enough votes to be speaker in the 15th round of voting...
Oct 26, 2023 · Washington — Rep. Mike Johnson, a Republican of Louisiana, won election as the new speaker of the House on Wednesday, ending three weeks of chaos since Rep. Kevin McCarthy's historic ouster.
