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United States House of Representatives (view source)
Revision as of 02:13, July 21, 2011
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The House's presiding officer is a Representative from the party with the most members currently in the House, and is known as the [[Speaker of the House]]. The current Speaker of the House is [[Republican]] [[John Boehner]], who is from [[Ohio]]. The majority leader is [[Eric Cantor]] and the minority leader is [[Nancy Pelosi]].
The House's presiding officer is a Representative from the party with the most members currently in the House, and is known as the [[Speaker of the House]]. The current Speaker of the House is [[Republican]] [[John Boehner]], who is from [[Ohio]]. The majority leader is [[Eric Cantor]] and the minority leader is [[Nancy Pelosi]].
While once a proud institution and an important part of the governing process, the 112th Congress -also known as the "House Freshmen", or the "Hell No Caucus" are generally considered to have done a great disservice both to the United States Government and to the Institution of the House of Representatives. They have engaged in childish stunts and wasted countless hours with childish activist legislation which has done nothing but waste the time not just of House Members, but also of the US Senate and the President. Polls conducted by a variety of news organizations in the Summer of 2011 register a high degree of disapproval for the behavior of the House Freshmen, and it is widely expected that a majority of those Republican Representatives first elected in 2010 will not be re-elected in 2012.
==Powers of the House==
==Powers of the House==