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91 unusual facts about United States House of Representatives


12th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

The regimental surgeon was Jedediah Hyde Baxter, son of Congressman Portus Baxter.

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.

Alabama elections, 2004

The 2004 United States Senate election in Alabama took place on November 2, 2004 alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives, various state and local elections, and the presidential election of that year.

Annexation Bill of 1866

The Annexation Bill of 1866 was a bill introduced on July 2, 1866, but never passed in the United States House of Representatives.

Aviation Maintenance Technician Day

On May 24, 2007, a United States House of Representatives resolution supporting the goals and ideals of a National Aviation Maintenance Technician Day was introduced.

Azalea Park, Florida

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

C. Hartley Grattan

In 1942 Grattan was forced to resign as Economic Analyst to the American Board of Economic Warfare when Representatives Martin Dies, Jr. and Jerry Voorhis accused him of being both a Nazi and Communist sympathizer; allegations that were withdrawn by Voorhis a short time later.

Carried interest

To address this concern, U.S. Representative Sander M. Levin introduced H.R. 2834 on June 22, 2007, which would eliminate the ability of persons performing investment-adviser or similar services to partnerships to receive capital-gains tax treatment on their income.

Center Township, Marion County, Indiana

Julia Carson, former U.S. representative and onetime Center Township trustee (now deceased) (1938–2007).

Channing E. Phillips

In 1971 he ran to become the first congressional delegate to the United States House of Representatives from D.C., but lost the Democratic primary to Walter E. Fauntroy.

Chester Santos

In March 2012, while performing before a crowd in New York City, Santos demonstrated memory of all 435 members of the United States House of Representatives, their party, their state, which district they represent and the committees they sit on.

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.

Conway County, Arkansas

Conway County was formed on October 20, 1825 from a portion of Pulaski County and named for Henry Wharton Conway who was the territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress.

Cullen Loeffler

Loeffler is the son of Tom Loeffler, a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives who also played football for the University of Texas under Darrell Royal.

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.

Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009

The House of Representatives passed the bill on September 30.

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.

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.

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).

Herbert Henry Dow High School

Bill Schuette, District Court of Appeals Judge, former member of the United States House of Representatives and Attorney General of the State of Michigan

James T. Molloy

Molloy was the last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives.

James Thomas Molloy (June 3, 1936 – July 19, 2011) was elected Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives during the 94th Congress in 1974 and served through the 103rd Congress.

Janus-Merritt Strategies

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

John Adams II

An investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives determined that Jarvis had initiated the attack, but took no other action.

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").

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.

Lyon Lake

Lucius Lyon served Michigan as both U.S. Senator and U.S. House Representative.

Matt Battiata

Battiata has twice traveled to Washington D.C. and met with members of both the United States Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.

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.

Mildred O'Neill

Mildred O'Neill (1914?-October 6, 2003) was the widow of former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tip O'Neill.

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".

Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation

The Foundation was established by the Congress in 1992 to honor Morris Udall’s thirty years of service in the House of Representatives.

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.

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.

Olympic Peninsula

The Olympic Peninsula is represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Derek Kilmer.

Oncology Nursing Society

With Representative Steve Israel as the bill sponsor, ONS reintroduced the Assuring and Improving Cancer Treatment Education and Cancer Symptom Act (H.R. 1661) to the House of Representatives in 2013.

Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives

The Parliamentarian is appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the position.

The Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives manages, supervises, and administers its Office of the Parliamentarian, which is responsible for advising presiding officers, Members, and staff on procedural questions under the U.S. Constitution, rule, and precedent, as well as for preparing, compiling, and publishing the precedents of the House.

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

One of her first initiatives after taking over Green For All was to build a coalition of "a broad range of groups — many of whom are not known for their engagement in climate and energy issues." This coalition came together to advocate for equity-based amendments to the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) — the climate bill in the House of Representatives.

Phil Valentine

Valentine is the son of former six-term Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Valentine of North Carolina, but is nonetheless a self-described conservative.

Pius L. Schwert

Pius Louis Schwert (November 22, 1892 – March 11, 1941) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

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.

Ringgold, Louisiana

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

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.

Science and technology in Italy

On September 25, 2001, US Congress passed a resolution that officially recognized the Florentine immigrant to the United States, Antonio Meucci, as the inventor of the telephone.

Septimus Tustin

While at Warrenton, he was elected to serve as chaplain of the United States House of Representatives.

Siddhartha Shankar Ray

She was once referred to as "a noted barrister and former elected official" by the late Thomas J. Manton, a member of the United States House of Representatives.

Skinner Butte

U.S. Representative from Oregon Charles O. Porter was one of the people who had advocated for the removal of the cross.

Snoqualmie River

On August 8, 2007, U.S. Representative Dave Reichert (WA-08), King County Executive Ron Sims, and others announced a proposal to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness to include the valley of the Pratt River, a tributary of the Middle Fork, near the town of North Bend.

Term limit

There are no term limits for Vice Presidency, Representatives and Senators, although there have been calls for term limits for those offices.

The American Ireland Fund

In 2008, the chair of the gala dinner was former United States Congress Member Jack Quinn.

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.

Tom Renyi

On September 22, 1999, Renyi testified before United States House of Representatives and United States Senate hearings, conducted in 1999 and 2000, amidst the Bank of New York scandal, during which billions of dollars from Russia were laundered through the Bank, which has long been considered one of the most respected financial pillars of America.

Twenty-seventh Amendment

Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution (1992), which prohibits changes to Congress members' salaries from taking effect until after an election of representatives.

Union Calendar

Union Calendar is a separate calendar in the United States House of Representatives that schedules bills involving money issues.

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 Reconstruction

The committee was established on December 13, 1865, after both houses reached agreement on an amended version of a House concurrent resolution introduced by Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania to establish a joint committee of 15 members.

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 Court of Private Land Claims

At first the Congress tried to deal with each land grant by special bill and the House had a Committee on Private Land Claims, seats on which were sought after as a way of dispensing patronage.

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

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 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 Enrolled Bills

The United States House Committee on Enrolled Bills 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 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 Revolutionary Pensions

The United States House Committee on Revolutionary Pensions was a U.S. House committee, established on January 10, 1831, that superseded the defunct Committee on Military Pensions to assume jurisdiction over issues related to pensions for service in the American Revolutionary War.

United States House Committee on Territories

The United States House Committee on Territories was a committee of the United States House of Representatives from 1825 to 1946 (19th to 79th Congresses).

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 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.

United States House Select Committee on the Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi

The committee terminated April 9, 1842, when it submitted its final report to the House.

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 Senate election in Connecticut, 1992

The 1992 United States Senate election in Connecticut took place on November 3, 1992, alongside other elections to the United States Senate in 34 other states, as well as with a presidential election and elections to the United States House of Representatives in all 50 states.

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

Words taken down is a procedure used in the United States House of Representatives under which words spoken by a Representative may be stricken from the record.

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."

Yorkville High School

United States Congressman for Illinois' 14th district and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert spent 16 years teaching at Yorkville from 1964–1980, primarily government and history classes.

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.


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.

Brightwaters, New York

Rick Lazio, congressman, 2000 Senate candidate, and gubernatorial candidate (R)

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.

Davis–Bacon Act

The act is named after its sponsors, James J. Davis, a Senator from Pennsylvania and a former Secretary of Labor under three presidents, and Representative Robert L. Bacon of Long Island, New York.

Earl C. Michener

In 1926, he was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives to conduct the impeachment proceedings against George W. English, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois.

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.

Enumerated powers

At the beginning of the 105th Congress, the House of Representatives incorporated the substantive requirement of the Enumerated Powers Act into the House rules.

Federal Contested Elections Act

The Federal Contested Elections Act of 1969 (2 U.S.C. §§ 381 et seq.), also FCEA provides a procedure for candidates to the United States House of Representatives to contest general elections by filing with the Clerk of the House.

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.

Harlan Erwin Mitchell

Upon the 1957 death of U.S. Representative Henderson Lovelace Lanham from the Georgia's 7th congressional district, Mitchell ran as a Democrat and won the special election to fill Lanham's term in the 85th United States Congress.

Henry Hull Carlton

Running as a Democrat, he was elected to the 50th United States Congress as a Representative and was re-elected to one additional term in that body.

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.

Lucius Seymour Storrs

Storrs is a relative of Henry Randolph Storrs, a U.S. Representative from New York; and William L. Storrs, a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

Melissa Winter

She worked for then Congressman Norman Mineta for seven years as his Staff Assistant and then Executive Assistant before working for Senator Joe Lieberman.

Micah Naftalin

Before joining UCSJ, he served as an aide to U.S. Congressman Carl Elliott, as Chief Counsel and Deputy Director of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Government Research and as a senior policy analyst with the National Academy of Sciences.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

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

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.

Produce traceability

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

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".

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.

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.

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 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, 1934

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1934 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, 1934.

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 California, 1978

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1978 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 7, 1978.

United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts, 1790

Elections for the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd Congress were held in Massachusetts on October 4, 1790, with subsequent elections held in four districts due to a majority not being achieved on the first ballot.

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.

Virgil City, Missouri

Virgil City has been the home of two members of the United States House of Representatives: Charles Germman Burton (a Republican) and Frank H. Lee (a Democrat).

Webster County, Georgia

The County is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representative and U.S. senator of Massachusetts.

Wilmot Proviso

Congressman David Wilmot first introduced the Proviso in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846, as a rider on a $2,000,000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican–American War (this was only three months into the two-year war).