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93 unusual facts about United States House of Representatives


1902 in poetry

April 1 – Thomas Dunn English (born 1819), American politician, poet, author, songwriter who was elected to the United States House of Representatives and had a feud with Edgar Allan Poe

2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash

After the United States House of Representatives voted to suspend military aid to Lebanon, the Lebanese government stated that it would reject any future U.S. military aid conditioned on Lebanon agreeing not to use it against Israel.

2011 alleged Iran assassination plot

Republican Representative Michael McCaul shared his view.

Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri

The same year he testified before the International Relations Sub-committee on the Western Hemisphere of the United States House of Representatives.

American Lung Association

The association members recommended a public health committee be formed by The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and be officially sanctioned by the United States House of Representatives.

Azalea Park, Florida

It is Florida's 8th Congressional District currently served by Republican Daniel Webster in the United States House of Representatives.

Citizens Energy Corporation

Its founder and chairman is former Massachusetts Democratic Representative Joseph Patrick Kennedy II.

Cloud County, Kansas

Frank Carlson was an American politician who served as the 30th Governor of Kansas and United States Representative and United States Senator from Kansas.

Deerfield Beach High School

Allen West, Republican U.S. Representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district since 2011 and lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, taught U.S. history at Deerfield Beach High in the 2004–2005 school year.

Don Dufek

During both of these seasons he was co-captain along with eventual Pro Football Hall of Famer and four-term representative in United States House of Representatives, Steve Largent, the captain of the offensive unit and Keith Simpson, captain of the defensive unit.

Eloise Baza

Guam's Delegate to the United States House of Representatives Madeleine Bordallo issued a statement in response to Baza's death: "Eloise was a driving force behind the Chamber and her leadership gave the

Embassy of Luxembourg, Washington, D.C.

The building was originally constructed for lumber baron and former Congressman Alexander Stewart in 1909.

Expungement in the United States

U.S. Representative Charles B. Rangel (D-NY15) proposed the Second Chance Act in 2007, 2009, and 2011, which was intended to "amend the federal criminal code to allow an individual to file a petition for expungement of a record of conviction for a nonviolent criminal offense".

First Church of Windsor

Joseph H. Rainey (1832-1877) was the first African American person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person to serve in the United States Congress.

Floor Services Chief

The Floor Services Chief is the title of the staff member in the Speaker's or Majority Leader's office who runs the Majority cloakroom in the United States House of Representatives.

Fowler, Kansas

Tim Huelskamp, Congressman representing the Kansas' 1st Congressional District.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.

Roosevelt Jr. was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives in a special election in 1949, in which he ran as a candidate of the Liberal Party of New York.

George Platt Brett, Sr.

In 1927, Brett testified at public hearings of the Patents Committee of the United States House of Representatives about a new national copyright law.

Golden Gate National Recreation Area

The bill passed in the Senate, but did not pass the House of Representatives.

Hammurabi

Hammurabi is one of the 23 lawgivers depicted in marble bas-reliefs in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in the United States Capitol.

Hancock County, Georgia

James Abercrombie, (1795–1861), born in Hancock County, later member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.

House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials

The House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials, commonly known as the Gathings Committee, was a select committee of the United States House of Representatives which was active in 1952 and 1953.

Representative Ezekiel C. Gathings, Democrat from Arkansas, was its chairman, appointed by Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn.

James T. Molloy

Molloy was the last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives.

Janus-Merritt Strategies

Safavian left Janus in January 2001 to become Chief of Staff for Representative Chris Cannon.

Jocko Conlan

His son John Bertrand Conlan served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona from 1973 to 1977.

John W. Kyle State Park

It is named after John W. Kyle, a former Mississippi state senator and a former U.S. representative from Mississippi.

Joseph Wheaton

Joseph Wheaton was an elected United States House of Representatives officer from 1789 to 1809.

K25IA-D

This ended in September 2013, when all TBN services were dropped in favor of Informed TV, a series of video lectures from Alan Roebke, a former Representative from Minnesota's 7th Congressional District.

Kenny Dies

Cartman gives a speech to the House of Representatives on behalf of stem cell research.

Khalid Adem

After Adem's arrest, Representative Mary Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur), in collaboration with Fortunate Adem, was able to get a law passed specifically outlawing female genital cutting in the state of Georgia.

KLAX-FM

The protesters marched in opposition to H.R. 4437, a proposal Congressional law that would theoretically make illegal immigration to the U.S. more difficult.

KTNF

In the summer of 2004, the station was purchased by Janet Robert, former Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for the US House of Representatives, to provide a local outlet for syndicated programming from the former Air America Radio network (the station was originally known as "Air America Minnesota").

Lexington Community Unit School District 7

John A. Sterling — Lexington superintendent 1881–1883; Congressman 1903–1913 and 1915–1918

Los Angeles City Council District 15

The seat was vacant in 2011, Janice Hahn, the holder at the time, having been elected to the House of Representatives.

Louisa Adams

Louisa thought she was retiring to Massachusetts permanently, but in 1831 her husband began seventeen years of service in the United States House of Representatives.

Louisville and Portland Canal

The United States Senate passed bills to this effect in 1810 and 1811, but both died from Democratic opposition in the House.

Malcolm Baldrige, Jr.

He was the son of H. Malcolm Baldrige, Sr. (1894 - 1985), a congressman from Nebraska, and the former Regina Katherine Connell (1896 - 1967).

McArthur Court

The arena is named for Clifton N. (Pat) McArthur, U. S. Congressman and Oregon student-athlete and the school's first student body president.

Medaryville, Indiana

Faris's son George Washington Faris served several terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing an area surrounding his home in Terre Haute.

Monster Squad

The series stars Fred Grandy (who also starred in The Love Boat and was later elected to the United States House of Representatives) as Walt, a criminology student working as a night watchman at "Fred's Wax Museum".

Muttshack Animal Rescue Foundation

In 2005, founder Amanda St. John and marty st. john was honored with special awards from the United States House of Representatives and the City of Los Angeles for rescue efforts and community service.

Myroslava Gongadze

The activities were supported by Freedom House and the Committee to Protect Journalists, and received letters of support from several members of the United States House of Representatives.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

Previously, Trandahl served as the thirty-second Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives.

National World War II Memorial

Kaptur introduced the World War II Memorial Act to the House of Representatives as HR 3742 on December 10.

Old Deer

The village is the birthplace of David B. Henderson, one of only two foreign born Speakers of the United States House of Representatives.

Paul B. Johnson State Park

It is named after Paul B. Johnson, a former U.S. Representative from Mississippi and former governor of Mississippi.

Percy Quin State Park

It is named after Percy Quin, a former U.S. Representative from Mississippi.

Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding

On February 14, 2008 Republican congressman Frank Wolf questioned the prince's gift, and whether the center had ever been critical of the Saudi government.

Raise a question of privilege

The United States House of Representatives has two similarly named procedures, "Question of the Privileges of the House" and "Privileged Questions"

Randolph County, Arkansas

William Jasper Blackburn, a Reconstruction U.S. Representative from Louisiana, was born on the Fourche de Mau in Randolph County in 1820.

Ratification

While the United States House of Representatives does not vote on it at all, the requirement for Senate advice and consent to ratification makes it considerably more difficult in the US than in other democratic republics to rally enough political support for international treaties.

Ray Hayworth

His younger brother, Red Hayworth, also was a major league catcher, and his grandson, J. D. Hayworth, was a Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Arizona between 1995 and 2007.

Recording Studio of the United States House of Representatives

The House Recording Studio provides radio and television recording services to Members, Committees, and Officers of the United States House of Representatives.

Republican Policy Committee Chairman of the United States House of Representatives

This is a list of Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee of the United States House of Representatives.

Ringgold, Louisiana

Ringgold, the son of a congressman from Maryland, was known for his particularly effective use of artillery.

Simbi Mubako

Mubako and Cynthia McKinney, a representative in the United States House of Representatives, accused supporters of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 of racism.

Single-subject rule

These amendments are often put into bills at the last minute, so that any representative who may read the legislation before actually voting on it will not have a chance to catch it.

Svend Auken

He is one of the few Danish politicians to be honoured in the United States House of Representatives.

Terrell County, Georgia

Formed from portions of Randolph and Lee counties on February 16, 1856, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, Terrell County is named for Dr. William Terrell of Sparta, Georgia, who served in the Georgia General Assembly and the United States House of Representatives.

Terrorists Among Us: Jihad in America

In 1995, U.S. representatives Bill McCollum of Florida and Gary Ackerman of New York distributed the documentary to every member of the House of Representatives, accompanied by a letter urging them to watch the film before the House began debating anti-terrorism legislation that summer.

Thomas D. O'Rourke

Professor O’Rourke has testified before the United States House of Representatives Science Committee (engineering implications of the 1999 Turkey and Taiwan earthquakes and, in 2003, on the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program).

Thomas Ustick Walter

Construction on the wings began in 1851 and proceeded rapidly; the House of Representatives met in its new quarters in December 1857 and the Senate occupied its new chamber by January 1859.

Trey Watts

Coming out of high school, Watts primary selling point was that his father, J.C. Watts, a former member of the United States House of Representatives, was previously a starting quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners.

United States Commission on Ocean Policy

Per the Act, the House of Representatives and Senate Majority each nominated eight people, and the President appointed four from each list.

United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

Congress soon transferred the bulk of the joint committee's jurisdiction over civilian nuclear power to other standing congressional committees in the House and Senate.

United States Congress Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress

The last and most recent version of this committee attempted further reforms, some of which were adopted by Congress when Republicans gained control of the House and Senate after the 1994 Congressional elections.

United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee in the United States House of Representatives.

United States House Committee on Accounts

In addition, the committee was responsible for the accountability of officers of the House, the procurement of rooms for the use of House committees and for the Speaker, and for recommending and authorizing the employment of such persons as stenographers, reporters of debates, janitors, and clerks and staff assistants for committees, members and senators.

The United States House Committee on Accounts is a former committee of the United States House of Representatives from 1803 to 1927.

United States House Committee on Commerce

The United States House Committee on Commerce was a standing committee of the U.S. House from 1819 until 1892; it was established when the previous Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, which has existed since 1795, was split into two different committees.

United States House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures

The United States House Committee on Commerce and Manufactures was a standing committee of the U.S. House from 1795 until 1819, when the two initially related subjects were split into the Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Manufactures.

United States House Committee on Elections

The United States House Committee on Elections is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.

United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department

The United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department is a defunct a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

United States House Committee on Insular Affairs

The United States House Committee on Insular Affairs is a defunct committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions

The United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions is a former committee of the United States House of Representatives from 1831 to 1946.

United States House Committee on Mileage

The United States House Committee on Mileage is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.

United States House Committee on Public Works

The United States House Committee on Public Works was a U.S. House committee, established in 1947 by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, that had jurisdiction over infrastructure within the United States.

United States House Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers

The President of the United States Senate and the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives would, upon receipt of the report, each appoint two Members to sit on a joint committee to meet and examine the reports and papers, and report on them.

United States House Select Committee on Government Contracts

On July 8, 1861, the House of Representatives appointed a committee to summon witnesses and take testimony, on the matter.

The rest of the committee returned to New York, and after receiving testimony and evidence from the custom-house in its own defense, ordered the testimony taken by Mr. Van Wyck to be deposited with the Clerk of the House "subject only to the inspection of any member of the committee."

United States House Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Corruptions in Government

The Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Corruptions in Government was as select committee of the United States House of Representatives which operated during the spring and summer of 1860 during the 36th Congress.

United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures

The Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measure is a subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means in the United States House of Representatives.

United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security

The Subcommittee on Social Security is a subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means in the United States House of Representatives.

United States Senate election in Florida, 1998

The 1998 United States Senate election in Florida took place on November 3, 1998 alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

United States Senate Watergate Committee

Its revelations prompted the introduction of articles of impeachment against the President in the House of Representatives, which led to Nixon's resignation.

United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola

In 1912, even though Coca-Cola had won the case, two bills were introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives to amend the Pure Food and Drug Act, adding caffeine to the list of "habit-forming" and "deleterious" substances, which must be listed on a product's label.

Utuado Uprising

On that day, Nationalist leader Lolita Lebrón and fellow Nationalists Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores and Andrés Figueroa Cordero attacked the United States House of Representatives.

Vacco v. Quill

To this effect the Court quoted a House Judiciary Committee hearing, stating that a physician performing an assisted suicide, "must, necessarily and indubitably, intend primarily that the patient be made dead."

Wall Doxey State Park

It is named after Wall Doxey, a former U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Mississippi.

Williamsville South High School

Alfred F. Beiter, Class of (c. 1907–08) (Williamsville HS), member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, 1933–39 & 1941–43

Words taken down

According to C-SPAN's congressional glossary, "After the words are 'taken down' by the clerk and read back, the chair rules on their suitability. If ruled inappropriate, the member may not speak again on the same day without House permission."

Yuri Bezmenov

In 1983, at a lecture in Los Angeles, Bezmenov expressed the opinion that he "wouldn't be surprised" if the Soviet Union had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in order to kill Larry McDonald, a member of the United States House of Representatives.


3D printed firearms

On December 3, 2013, the United States House of Representatives passed the bill To extend the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 for 10 years (H.R. 3626; 113th Congress).

Abram Calvin Wildrick

Abram Calvin Wildrick (August 5, 1836 - November 16, 1894) was a Union brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, who was the son of former New Jersey U.S. Representative Isaac Wildrick.

Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr.

Coxe was the son of the US Circuit Court of Appeals Justice (2nd Circuit) Alfred Conkling Coxe, Sr., great grandson of Alfred Conkling, who served as a U.S. Representative from upstate New York and a judge in the Northern District, and grand nephew of Roscoe Conkling, who was a Congressman and Senator from New York and boss of the state's Republican political machine.

Archibald T. MacIntyre

MacIntyre was elected in 1870 as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives to the 42nd Congress.

Barrie Leslie Konicov

Konicov's Libertarian political leanings eventually led him to a 1994 bid for Michigan district 3 seat in the United States House of Representatives.

Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower Facilitation Act

The Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower Facilitation Act (H.R. 254) was a bill introduced in the 113th United States Congress which passed in the United States House of Representatives on April 9, 2013.

Carroll Livingston Wainwright I

Wainwright's eldest child with Edith Gould was Stuyvesant Wainwright II, who represented New York's 1st District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1953 to 1961.

Civil Rights Act of 1875

The bill was proposed by Senator Sumner and co-sponsored by Representative Benjamin F. Butler, both Republicans from Massachusetts, in the 43rd Congress of the United States in 1870.

Commission on Foreign Economic Policy

Section 301 of this Act provided for a bipartisan commission which consisted of seventeen members: seven appointed by the President, five appointed from the Senate by the Vice President, and five from the United States House of Representatives by the Speaker.

Daniel Siebert

In 2002, Siebert wrote a letter to the United States Congress in which he objected to bill H.R. 5607 introduced by Rep. Joe Baca (D-California) which sought to place Salvia divinorum in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.

Eben Alexander

Eben Alexander's father, Ebenezer Alexander, was a prominent judge in Tennessee, and his grandfather, Adam Rankin Alexander, was the founder of Alexandria, Tennessee and a member of the House of Representatives from 1823 to 1827.

Gene Jeffress

Jeffress ran in the 2012 elections for the United States House of Representatives, representing Arkansas' 4th congressional district.

George William Crump

George William Crump (September 26, 1786 – October 1, 1848) was a member of the United States House of Representatives in the 19th United States Congress.

Glass–Steagall in post-financial crisis reform debate

During the 2009 United States House of Representatives consideration of H.R. 4173, the bill that became the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) proposed an amendment to the bill that would have reenacted Glass–Steagall Sections 20 and 32, which had been repealed by the 1999 Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), and also prohibited bank insurance activities.

Henry Cullen Adams

In 1902, Adams was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the 2nd District of Wisconsin to the 58th United States Congress and was reelected to the 59th Congress serving until his death (March 4, 1903 - July 9, 1906).

Henry Jordan

The ceremony brought together former NFL stars of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, with surviving members of that year's Hall of Fame class representing the latter decade (one of them, then-Congressman Steve Largent flipped the coin on their behalf).

Idaho Democratic Party

Richard Stallings, a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Idaho, had served as the party's chair since 2005.

Invitations to the first inauguration of Barack Obama

Invitations were sent to constituents, who received one of the 240,000 color-coded tickets to the inaugural ceremony distributed by House and Senate congressional members of the 111th U.S. Congress.

Jesse Franklin Cleveland

In 1835, Cleveland was elected as a Jacksonian Representative from Georgia to the 24th United States Congress to complete the term left vacant when William Schley resigned to become Governor of Georgia.

Lewis Beach

Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses, Beach was a U. S. Representative for the fourteenth district of New York from March 4, 1881 to March 3, 1885.

Matrícula Consular

In January 2003, Nancy Pelosi, the ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, pushed for a trial arrangement to give holders of Matricula Consular cards access to the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco.

Milton Semer

He was lawyer for Fernand St. Germain, Democratic U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, during an ethics investigation; St. Germain was cleared of all charges in 1987.

Paula Aboud

On January 3, 2006 she was appointed to the Arizona State Senate by the Pima County Board of Supervisors, following the resignation of Gabrielle Giffords, who stepped down to run for the United States House of Representatives.

Philetus Sawyer

He ran for and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1864 and served for ten years from 1865 until 1875 being first elected to the 39th United States Congress.

Politics and government of North Carolina

In the 113th Congress, the state is represented by four Democratic and nine Republican members of congress, plus one Republican and one Democratic Senator.

Produce traceability

The draft Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 was introduced May 27, 2009, in the U.S. House of Representatives.

River Raisin National Battlefield Park

The first step toward promotion to the national level was the River Raisin National Battlefield Act (H.R. 401.IH), which was passed by the House of Representatives of the 111th Congress on January 9, 2009.

Robert W. Levering

Robert Woodrow Levering (October 3, 1914 – August 11, 1989) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son-in-law of Usher L. Burdick and brother-in-law of Quentin N. Burdick.

Ruse of war

The use of the American flag flown on the RMS Lusitania while crossing through the Irish Sea to avoid attack by German submarines during the First World War was criticized in debate in the United States House of Representatives by Republican Eben Martin of South Dakota, who stated that "the United States cannot be made a party to a ruse of war where the national colors are involved".

Shelli Yoder

She was the Democratic Party nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Indiana's 9th congressional district in the 2012 race and is currently a member of the County Council for Monroe County, Indiana.

South Carolina's 1st congressional district special election, 1971

The 1971 South Carolina 1st congressional district special election was held on April 27, 1971 to select a Representative for the 1st congressional district to serve out the remainder of the term for the 92nd Congress.

Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act

The Act was introduced in the House of Representatives on June 17, 2009, by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) and has been cosponsored by 169 of the 257 House Democrats.

T. D. Little

He ran for Alabama's 3rd congressional district for United States House of Representatives in 1996 after Glen Browder retired but lost to Bob Riley (R).

United States House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress

The United States House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.

United States House of Representatives election in American Samoa, 2008

The non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives is elected for two-year terms; whoever is elected will serve in the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1914

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1914 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 3, 1914.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1928

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1928 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1928.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1954

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1954 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1954.

United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2008

The 2008 congressional elections in New Hampshire were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives during the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011.

United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, 1998

The United States House of Representative elections of 1998 in North Carolina were held on 3 November 1998 as part of the biennial election to the United States House of Representatives.

United States presidential election in Oklahoma, 2008

Another fallback for Obama was that U.S. Representative Dan Boren, the only Democrat from Oklahoma's five-member delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, refused to endorse Obama.

Vernon Parker

In 2012, Parker ran for the United States House of Representatives in Arizona's 9th district.