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Officer appointed by a deliberative body to keep order
The pay and expense framework for U.S. senators combines a base salary subject to annual adjustments, a suite of appropriated allowances for official duties (staff, offices, travel, mail, interns), an...
The Constitution’s “privilege from arrest” applies the same text to Senators and Representatives: they “shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest du...
has been enforced through three distinct mechanisms—criminal referral to , civil litigation in federal court, and the rarely used inherent contempt power that empowers a chamber to arrest and detain r...
The assembled sources converge on a single, clear finding: , which is handled by parliamentary clerks or presiding officers such as the Speaker . Contemporary descriptions from multiple institutional ...
Nancy Pelosi acknowledged responsibility for security lapses on January 6 but the available records in the provided dataset do identify a specific Pentagon official she contacted about National Guard ...
The Speaker of the House can use House rules and constitutional grants to compel attendance for votes, including budget measures, but that authority is : it rests on quorum rules, calls of the House, ...