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About the 119th US House

The 119th United States Congress is the current term of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It convened on January 3, 2025, during the final 17 days of Joe Biden‘s presidency, and will end in 2027. It will meet during the first two years of Donald Trump‘s second presidency.

Following the 2024 elections, the Republican Party retained its slim majority in the House, won the majority in the Senate, and upon Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, 2025, will have an overall federal government trifecta for the first time since the 115th Congress in 2017, which was in session during Trump’s first term.

The 119th Congress features the slimmest majority in the House for any party since the 72nd Congress in 1931, and the first openly transgender member of Congress in history (Representative Sarah McBride of Delaware)/

All the Republican House members can be found in this slider organized alphabetically by state name. Republican leaders can be found here. leaders can be found here.

All the Democratic House members can be found in this slider organized alphabetically by state name and Democratic leaders can be found here.

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Donald Trump’s 2025 Inauguration
PBS NewsHour, January 20, 2025 – 8:00 am to 10:00 pm (ET)
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On the first U.S. Inauguration Day in 1789, President-elect George Washington took the oath of office. That was all the Constitution required him to do that day. But he did something more:

He gave a speech,” writes Claire Jerry, a political history curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. “Every president since has followed his example and delivered an inaugural address as part of the national celebration.”

There have been 59 inaugural addresses, including the one that Washington gave that day, Jerry tells us. “And while they may have differed in style and even specific subjects,” they all contain certain characteristics, ranging from calls to unify the country to reaffirming national values.

Jerry’s story is accompanied by photos of inauguration-related items from the museum’s collection. There’s a commemorative ceramic pitcher emblazoned with a quote: “We are all Republicans … all Federalists,” from Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address in 1801; a button commemorating the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama features images of Obama and Abraham Lincoln; and the official program from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 inauguration bears the image of a sailing ship navigating rough, blue seas.

Each of these images captures themes conveyed in inaugural speeches. Will Donald Trump’s inaugural speech in Washington today hit the same notes as Thomas Jefferson, William McKinley and Barack Obama? At roughly noon today, we should find out.

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A brief history of presidential inaugural speeches, from George Washington to today

Claire Jerry, Smithsonian Institution

Inaugural addresses that newly minted presidents have given over the past 250 years have aimed to do several key things, including unify the country and establish the speaker’s qualifications for the job.

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Behind the Curtain: Startup America
Axios, Jim VandeHei , Mike AllenJanuary 20, 2025

A theory that binds Trump with leading innovators, especially Elon Musk, is that you can bring tech and business talent and techniques together to take a wrecking ball to broken ideas and/or processes or entire agencies.

  • This isn’t Trump’s instinctual motivation, aides say. He wants a strong stock market, slower inflation, low joblessness, the holy trinity of economic indicators.

But Musk, Marc Andreessen and a growing chorus of entrepreneurs and tech CEOs are fusing their “founder mode” mentality with Trump’s desire for fast growth.

  • You have Silicon Valley’s best and brightest battling for bigger roles in reshaping government. Almost every CEO wants a slice of the action.
Capitalism: the disease and the cure
The Antidote, Dr Dan GoyalJanuary 20, 2025

On a day like today, it’s worth reminding ourselves that it’s our money they are after

Capitalism differs from trade due primarily to its focus on profit. It brings in the concept of the mere presence of ‘capital’ leading to greater wealth – money making money. In some ways, while we have 3.6 billion people living in relative poverty globally, a system whereby those who already have wealth achieving greater wealth simply because they have wealth to begin with doesn’t make a lot of sense.

One would think that human civilisation would seek a system whereby it helps as many people as possible to achieve relative wealth. Alas, such a system has not made its way into the economic system, as of yet. Until it does, it is worth considering how to use our current capitalist system to affect change.

Even if such global consumer consciousness was not achieved, there is benefit at the local, community level of spending your money wisely. We know that money spent in the community and profit is generated by those who live in the community that the whole community prospers. The money stays in the community, as opposed to being sucked up by massive conglomerates and ends up in the international bank accounts of a few folks.

The Birth of Aspirational Populism
Yascha Mounk SubstackJanuary 20, 2025

How political scientists misunderstood Trump and missed his appeal.

Trump did this by doing what academics are supposed to be expert in: recognizing that the popular understanding of some concept—in this case, populism—is actually constituted by two elements which are logically separable. In his more recent incarnation, Trump has held on to his disdain for longstanding norms and his populist belief in the unfettered prerogative of the majority. But he has also made more explicit than in the past that his political vision is open to supporters from every ethnic and religious group—and has been very shrewd in courting them with an aspirational vision of America.

Though the term is much-overused and often misapplied, the concept of populism remains the most accurate frame for understanding his actions: He believes that, as the rightful voice of the people, he should not suffer any artificial restrictions on his actions—whether by unwritten norms or by explicit limits on the powers of a president.

For the most part, the executive orders Trump announced in his Second Inaugural are tailor-made to support this vision. His promise to restore order to American cities will resonate among the poorer and more diverse segments of his electorate who are the prime victims of urban crime. His promise to restore free speech is broadly popular among voters without fancy degrees who feel that elites are using their arbitrary moral codes and linguistic conventions as cudgels to wield against them at will. Even his promise to “drill, baby, drill” is broadly popular among voters who are more focused on realizing their American Dream in the next few years than on containing the threat to the climate over the coming decades

Trump’s digital populism takes the stage
Digital Future Daily, Derek RobertsonJanuary 20, 2025

The TikTok drama represents the crash of two powerful strains in American public life, a conflict that Trump has a flair for capitalizing on and even encouraging.

One is the full weight of America’s legal and democratic institutions — the Congress that overwhelmingly passed the law; the president who signed it; the Supreme Court that upheld it.

On the other side are Trump and TikTok: an app with 170 million upset American users, verging on an unruly mob, and a president with a drive to deliver populist “wins.”

For now its seems the digital crowd has the upper hand, in the latest, and maybe most potent, example of the new form of digital populism Trump has embraced.

No Davos Polar Bears
The Sustainable Media Substack, Steve RosenbaumJanuary 20, 2025

Every conversation seems to circle back to how AI is transforming everything, from the newsroom to the classroom. Add in the persistent challenges of social media and a growing mental health crisis, and you’ve got the makings of what promises to be one of the most consequential Davos gatherings in years.

Among the most anticipated venues this year is Future House, a powerful collaboration between Human Change and Project Liberty. While Human Change focuses on reshaping the narrative around children’s mental health and digital well-being, Project Liberty, launched by Frank McCourt, is working to give people back control of their digital lives. Together, they’re convening experts and advocates to tackle some of our most pressing technological challenges. Their first session dives into how technology is fundamentally reshaping our sense of community.

America is Now Under a Tyranny!
Special Intelligence, Malcolm NanceJanuary 20, 2025 (18:40:00)

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A Philadelphian’s Passionate Plea to Embrace One Word … DEFIANCE!

The tyranny of the Trump dictatorship descended upon America today. Worse is that it made me violate my pledge to IGNORE Trump and his spectacle … However, soon after I made this video Elon Musk spoke at a Trump rally and made the NAZI SALUTE … TWICE! He also praised how MAGA has saved the white race using the near exact words of Adolph Hitler.

It will only get worse. They have pledged to upend all democratic norms America may never be the same.

Watch this video and embrace the word DEFIANCE in your daily opposition to the fascist government that some people did not care to oppose.

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House Republicans – 119th Congress

When the conference holds the majority of seats, it is usually led by the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives who is assisted on the floor by the House majority leader and the party’s chief whip. When in the minority, it is led by the House minority leader, assisted by the chief whip. The conference has a chair who directs day-to-day operations and who is assisted by an elected vice chair and a secretary.

All the Republican House members can be found in this slider organized alphabetically by state name. Republican leaders can be found here. leaders can be found here.

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House Democrats- 119th Congress

In its roles as a party conference, the caucus writes and enforces rules of conduct and discipline for its members, approves committee assignments, and serves as the primary forum for development of party policy and legislative priorities. It hosts weekly meetings for these purposes and to communicate the party’s message to members.

All the Democratic House members can be found in this slider organized alphabetically by state name and Democratic leaders can be found here.

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Into the storm
The Warning with Steve SchmidtJanuary 20, 2025

The Democratic Party needs to become the reform and renewal party. It must stand on the side of ordinary Americans who are going to be abused by powerful interests like never before.

It must stand for economic growth and prosperity.

It must stand for national strength and the American flag.

It must have zero tolerance for the next Senator Menendez in its midst.

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