The speaker of the United States House of Representatives,commonly known as the speaker of the House,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 its presiding officer,de facto leader of the body's majority party,and the institution's administrative head. Speakers also perform various other administrative and procedural functions. Given these several roles and responsibilities,the speaker usually does not personally preside over debates—that duty is instead delegated to members of the House from the majority party—nor regularly participate in floor debates.
Howard Lawrence Berman is an American attorney and retired politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1983 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented the state's 26th congressional district until redistricting and the 28th congressional district—which both encompassed parts of the San Fernando Valley—for a combined 15 terms.
Philip Miller Crane was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005,representing the 8th District of Illinois in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. At the time of his defeat in the 2004 election,Crane was the longest-serving Republican member of the House.
John Andrew Boehner is an American retired politician who served as the 53rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he served 13 terms as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 8th congressional district from 1991 to 2015. The district included several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton.
Robert D. McEwen is an American lobbyist and former Republican Party politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from southern Ohio's Sixth District,from January 3,1981 to January 3,1993. Tom Deimer of Cleveland's Plain Dealer described him as a "textbook Republican" who is opposed to abortion,gun control and high taxes. In the House,he criticized government incompetence and charged corruption by the Democratic majority that ran the House in the 1980s. McEwen,who had easily won three terms in the Ohio House,was elected to Congress at the age of thirty to replace a retiring representative in 1980 and easily won re-election five times.
Clarence Ellsworth Miller,Jr. was a Republican Congressman from Ohio,serving January 3,1967,to January 3,1993.
Leon William Paxon is an American lobbyist and former member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. From 1989 to 1999,he served five terms in Congress.
Elmer Greinert "Bud" Shuster is an American politician who represented Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1973 to 2001. He is best known for his advocacy of transportation projects,including Interstate 99.
Gregory Haines Laughlin is a politician from Texas. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives.
Robert Henry Michel was an American Republican Party politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 38 years. He represented central Illinois' 18th congressional district,and was the GOP leader in the House,serving as House Minority Leader during his last 14 years in Congress (1981–1995).
Thomas J. Manton was an American politician who represented the 9th and 7th Congressional District of New York in the United States House of Representatives
The 48th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C. from March 4,1883,to March 4,1885,during the last two years of Chester A. Arthur's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1880 United States census. The Senate had a Republican majority,and the House had a Democratic majority.
The United States House of Representatives,commonly known as the lower chamber of the United States Congress,along with the United States Senate,commonly known as the upper chamber,are the two parts of the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. Like its counterpart,the House was established by the United States Constitution and convened for its first meeting on March 4,1789,at Federal Hall in New York City. The history of this institution begins several years prior to that date,at the dawn of the American Revolutionary War.
Thomas William Ewing is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and the Illinois State House of Representatives. Ewing was a state representative from 1974 to 1991,and a U.S. Congressman representing the 15th district of Illinois from July 2,1991 until his retirement on January 3,2001. In January 1995 he was named a Deputy Republican House Whip. While a U.S. Congressman,Thomas Ewing was considered to be a Conservative,favoring a smaller,less intrusive government,but more on economic issues than on social ones.
Ohio's 6th congressional district is represented by Representative Bill Johnson (R-OH). This district runs along the eastern side of the state,bordering West Virginia,and Pennsylvania. It stretches from Marietta through several Ohio River industrial towns all the way to the city of Youngstown.
William Franklin Goodling was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. At the time of his death,he was the Chairman of the Board of the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy.
Gary Arthur Myers was an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district from 1975 to 1979.
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.
The 1994 United States elections were held on November 8,1994. The elections occurred in the middle of Democratic President Bill Clinton's first term in office,and elected the members of 104th United States Congress. The elections have been described as the "Republican Revolution" because the Republican Party captured unified control of Congress for the first time since 1952. Republicans picked up eight seats in the Senate and won a net of 54 seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans also picked up a net of ten governorships and took control of many state legislative chambers.
On October 29,2015,during the 114th United States Congress,an election for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was necessitated by the impending resignation of John Boehner,set for October 30. Boehner was the first speaker to resign in the middle of a Congressional term since Jim Wright in 1989.
