Kevin McCarty of California is elected Speaker of the House on January 7, 2023, four days and 15 ballots the election of the speaker began at the start of the 118th Congress.
In 1971, Congress and President Nixon declared a national 'war on cancer', which established funding for 15 new cancer research centers.
If passed, this bill would have granted each and every slave freed from the confederacy 80 acres of land to farm. After the entire Democratic caucus voted to strike it down, it was not made into law.
With the exception of abstentions, this comprehensive voting-rights package was passed by the House through a party-line vote.
In 1804, the House impeached a Supreme Court Justice for the first time. His acquital in the Senate set a precedent of judicial independence from the legislature.
