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en-wikipedia-org-6099		Speaker of the United States House of Representatives - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	7935	875	65	The Constitution does not require the speaker to be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives, although every speaker thus far has been.[4] The speaker is second in the United States presidential line of succession, after the vice president and ahead of the president pro tempore of the Senate.[2] Since 1839, the House has elected speakers by roll call vote.[6] Traditionally, each party's caucus or conference selects a candidate for the speakership from among its senior leaders prior to the roll call. Gillett speaker.[1] Upon winning election the new speaker is immediately sworn in by the dean of the United States House of Representatives, the chamber's longest-serving member.[10][11] Following the 2018 Congressional midterm elections which saw the election of a Democratic Party majority in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker when the 116th Congress convened on January 3, 2019. See also: List of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives elections	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6099.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6099.txt