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105th United States Congress
104th ←
→ 106th
United States Capitol
January 3, 1997 – January 3, 1999
Members100 senators
435 representatives
5 non-voting delegates
Senate majorityRepublican
Senate PresidentAl Gore (D)
House majorityRepublican
House SpeakerNewt Gingrich (R)
Sessions
1st: January 7, 1997 – November 13, 1997
2nd: January 27, 1998 – December 19, 1998

The One Hundred Fifth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1997, to January 3, 1999, during the fifth and sixth years of Bill Clinton's presidency. Apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Twenty-first Census of the United States in 1990. Both chambers had a Republican majority. President Clinton was impeached by the US House of Representatives of the 105th Congress.

Major events

Main articles: 1997 in the United States, 1998 in the United States, and 1999 in the United States

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation § 105th United States Congress

Major resolutions

Party summary

Senate

Party standings in the 105th Congress
  45 Democratic Senators
  55 Republican Senators

There was no change in the parties during this Congress.

Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" | style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color" |
Republican Democratic Vacant
End of previous Congress 53 47 100 0
105th Congress 55 45 100 0
Final voting share 55% 45%
Beginning of the next Congress 55 45 100 0

House of Representatives

Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" | style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color" | style="background-color:Template:Independent Party (United States)/meta/color" |
Republican Democratic Independent Vacant
End of previous Congress 234 198 1 433 2
Begin (January 3, 1997) 227 206 1 434 1
January 8, 1997[note 1] 228 435 0
End 227 207
Final voting share 52.2% 47.6% 0.2%
Non-voting members 1 4 0 5 0
Beginning of the next Congress 223 211 1 435 0

Leadership

Senate

Senate President
Al Gore
Al Gore (D)
Senate President pro Tempore
Strom Thurmond
Strom Thurmond (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

Minority (Democratic) leadership

House of Representatives

Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

Minority (Democratic) leadership

Caucuses

Members

Skip to House of Representatives, below

Senate

In this Congress, Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1998; Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 2000; and Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 2002.

House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives are listed by districts.

Changes in membership

Senate

There were no changes in Senate membership during this Congress.

House of Representatives

Four members of the House of Representatives died, and four resigned.

See also: List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

Template:Ordinal US Congress Rep

|- | Missouri's 8th | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | Rep. Bill Emerson died during previous Congress | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Jo Ann Emerson (R) | January 8, 1997 |- | Texas's 28th | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Frank Tejeda (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 30, 1997 | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Ciro D. Rodriguez (D) | April 12, 1997 |- | New Mexico 3rd | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Bill Richardson (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 13, 1997, to become Ambassador to the United Nations | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Bill Redmond (R) | May 20, 1997 |- | New York 13th | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Susan Molinari (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned August 2, 1997, to become a television journalist for CBS | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Vito Fossella (R) | November 5, 1997 |- | California 22nd | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Walter H. Capps (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died October 28, 1997 | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Lois Capps (D) | March 17, 1998 |- | Pennsylvania 1st | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Thomas M. Foglietta (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 11, 1997, to become Ambassador to Italy | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Robert A. Brady (D) | May 21, 1998 |- | New York 6th | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Floyd H. Flake (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 17, 1997, to return full-time to his duties as pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Gregory Meeks (D) | February 5, 1998 |- | California 44th | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Sonny Bono (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 5, 1998 | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Mary Bono (R) | April 21, 1998 |- | California 9th | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Ronald Dellums (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 6, 1998 | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Barbara Lee (D) | April 21, 1998 |- | New Mexico 1st | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Steven Schiff (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died March 25, 1998 | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Heather Wilson (R) | June 25, 1998 |}

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members (House and Senate) of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link (1 link), in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, on the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.

Senate

House of Representatives

Joint committees

Employees and legislative agency directors

Legislative branch agency directors

Senate

House of Representatives

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Rep. Bill Emerson (R-Missouri's 8th district) died during previous Congress. Jo Ann Emerson (R) was later elected to the seat.

References

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