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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the United States Congress — a bipartisan coalition of both Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate — and was signed into law by Democratic Preside...
The House of Representatives uses a small set of formal voting procedures——and different rules determine when each is used and whether individual member votes are recorded. The most consequential rule...
The House Judiciary Committee ordinarily conducts impeachment investigations and drafts articles of impeachment, but other standing committees or specially created select committees can investigate, g...
The full, official member-by-member roll call for Roll Call 28 (H.R. 7006) is available on the U.S. House Clerk’s website; the main roll call landing page for Roll Call 28 is at clerk.house.gov/Votes/...
Privileged impeachment resolutions—those offered as a “question of the privileges of the House”—are routinely referred to the House Judiciary Committee when they directly call for impeachment, and his...
A discharge petition is a rarely used parliamentary tool that allows a majority of House members to bypass leadership and force consideration of a bill on the floor; when it attracts at least 218 sign...
A full House impeachment vote is triggered when the House adopts an impeachment resolution or articles of impeachment by a simple majority; how and when that question reaches the floor is governed by ...
The House’s 2024 meeting schedule was formally set in published calendars but was both anchored and altered by institutional events: the statutory start of a new Congress after the 2024 elections (a f...
The 2019 impeachment inquiry followed a formal, House-directed, multi-committee investigative path anchored in a privileged Rules resolution that set procedures, committee jurisdictions, and member ac...
The House passed H.R. 7152 on February 10, 1964; the Senate after a 72‑day fight, including a filibuster, approved its amended version on June 19 by 73–27 and the House then accepted the Senate amendm...
The government shutdown has created procedural conditions that can delay congressional actions, and multiple contemporaneous reports show this delay has slowed efforts to force the release of Jeffrey ...