110th United States Congress

The 110th Congress of the United States, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, was the legislature of the United States. His legislative period lasted from 4 January 2007 to 3 January 2009. Distribution of seats in the House of Representatives to the individual states was carried out according to the census in 2000.

All 435 members of the House of Representatives and 33 Senators (Class I) were elected in the midterm elections of 7 November 2006. Since 1995, the Democrats achieved for the first time in both houses of the majority - while still to January 2009, incumbent President of the United States, George W. Bush, the Republican Party was a member.

  • 4.1 House of Representatives 4.1.1 guiding the majority party
  • 4.1.2 guiding the minority party
  • 4.2.1 guiding the majority party
  • 4.2.2 guiding the minority party

Significant Events

  • January 27, 2007: President Bush holds the State of the Union Address 2007 before Congress, in which he proposes a comprehensive military operation to end the war in Iraq among others.
  • October 7, 2007: The Dow Jones Industrial Average of the largest publicly -oriented company closes with a record 14164.53 points. By March 2009, he falls by more than half to 6547.05 after the end of 2007 a ​​nationwide housing bubble bursts and advised the United States for the first time since 2001 in a recession.
  • January 28, 2008: President Bush holds the State of the Union Address 2008 before Congress.
  • September 15, 2008: The fourth largest investment bank Lehman Brothers goes into bankruptcy. The bankruptcy is debt after the largest in the history of the United States. It has an impact on the global financial markets.
  • November 4, 2008: With the midterm elections, the Democrats achieve a majority in both chambers. The Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wins the election against the Republican candidate John McCain.

Significant legislation

  • May 25, 2007 - With the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007, the Congress adopted a new budget for the Iraq war and a number of other internal policies. Part of the law was also an increase in the statutory minimum wage of 5.15 to 7.25 U.S. dollars per hour.
  • 19 June 2007 - The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would allow the government funding of stem cell research by the federal government. The law was passed by Congress, but was vetoed by President Bush.
  • August 3, 2007 - Congress passed the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, are to be inspected by all delivered by ship or aircraft in the United States goods by federal authorities.
  • August 5, 2007 - The Protect America Act of 2007 allowed the surveillance of foreign targets without a court order staying abroad and pose a danger to the security of the United States of intelligence believes.
  • February 13, 2008 - With the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, Congress passed a law in support of the American economy after the onset of the global financial crisis from 2007.
  • 21 May 2008 - The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act verbobt health insurers and employers to discriminate against people based solely on genetic characteristics.
  • July 30, 2008 - The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, the Federal Housing Administration was given the authorization to award the government-backed mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac default guarantees for a total amount of 300 billion U.S. dollars. Thus, the spread of financial crisis should be curbed, which broke out in the United States in particular due to a burst real estate bubble.
  • October 3, 2008 - The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act authorized the United States Treasury, risky bonds, especially insecure bonds for privately used property purchased and provide credit institutions in financial straits directly capital to secure their liquidity. The total volume of the authorization was 700 billion U.S. dollars. At the same time also tax cuts for businesses and the middle class have been adopted.

Parties

House of Representatives

Senate

Leadership

House of Representatives

Changes compared to the 109th Congress resulted primarily from the change in majority ownership: The Democrat Nancy Pelosi, since 2003 Minority Leader, was elected as the first woman in the history of the United States to the speaker, and thus replaced the Republican Dennis Hastert, of these items had occupied since 1999. When the Republicans retained both John Boehner, in February 2006 majority, now Minority Leader, and Roy Blunt, since 2003 majority, now Minderheitswhip, their posts. For the Democrats, the previous Whip rose, Steny Hoyer, the majority leader, while Jim Clyburn took over his previous posts.

Leadership of the majority party

Leadership of the minority party

Senate

In the Senate, Democrat Robert Byrd released the Republicans Ted Stevens from as president pro tempore. While within the Democratic Party, Harry Reid and Richard Durbin also retained as representative of the majority party their respective posts, there was among the Republicans to personnel changes: The former Whip Mitch McConnell became the minority leader, while Trent Lott took over his previous post.

Leadership of the majority party

Leadership of the minority party

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