House Republican Conference

Party caucus for Republicans in the United States House of Representatives

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House Republican Conference
Part of	United States House of Representatives
Floor Leader	Kevin McCarthy (CA)
Floor Whip	Steve Scalise (LA)
Chair	Liz Cheney (WY)
Vice Chair	Mike Johnson (LA)
Ideology	Conservatism[1] Fiscal conservatism[2] Social conservatism[3][4]
Political position	Right-wing
Affiliation	Republican Party
Colors	Red
Seats	211 / 435
Website
https://www.gop.gov
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The House Republican Conference is the party caucus for Republicans in the United States House of Representatives. It hosts meetings and is the primary forum for communicating the party's message to members. The Conference produces a daily publication of political analysis under the title Legislative Digest.

The conference has a chair who directs day-to-day operations and who is assisted by an elected vice chair and a secretary. The current chair is Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who assumed the position in 2019.^[5] Former chairs include Gerald Ford, John Boehner, Mike Pence, John B. Anderson, Dick Cheney, Jack Kemp, J. C. Watts, Deborah D. Pryce, Adam Putnam, Jeb Hensarling, and Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

Current hierarchy

Effective with the start of the 117th Congress, the conference leadership is as follows:

• Kevin McCarthy (CA) as House Minority Leader
• Steve Scalise (LA) as House Minority Whip
• Liz Cheney (WY) as Republican Conference Chair
• Mike Johnson (LA) as Vice Chairman of the House Republican Conference
• Richard Hudson (NC) as Secretary of the House Republican Conference
• Gary Palmer (AL) as Chair of the House Republican Policy Committee
• Tom Emmer (MN) as Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee
• Drew Ferguson (GA) as House Republican Chief Deputy Whip

Conference leader

Dates	Representative	State
February 1, 1860 – March 3, 1861	William Pennington	New Jersey
July 4, 1861 – March 4, 1863	Galusha A. Grow	Pennsylvania
December 7, 1863 – March 3, 1869	Schuyler Colfax	Indiana
March 3, 1869 – March 4, 1869	Theodore M. Pomeroy	New York
March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1875	James G. Blaine	Maine
December 4, 1889-March 3, 1899	Thomas Brackett Reed	Maine
December 4, 1899 – March 4, 1903	David B. Henderson	Iowa
November 9, 1903 – March 4, 1911	Joseph Gurney Cannon	Illinois
March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1919	James Robert Mann	Illinois
May 19, 1919 – March 3, 1925	Frederick H. Gillett	Massachusetts
December 7, 1925 – March 4, 1931	Nicholas Longworth	Ohio
March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1939	Bertrand Snell	New York
January 3, 1939-January 3, 1959	Joseph W. Martin Jr.	Massachusetts
January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1965	Charles A. Halleck	Indiana
January 3, 1965 – December 6, 1973	Gerald Ford	Michigan
December 7, 1973 – January 3, 1981	John Jacob Rhodes	Arizona
January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1995	Robert H. Michel	Illinois
January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1999	Newt Gingrich	Georgia
January 6, 1999 – January 3, 2007	Dennis Hastert	Illinois
January 3, 2007-October 29, 2015	John Boehner	Ohio
October 29, 2015 – January 3, 2019	Paul Ryan	Wisconsin
January 3, 2019-present	Kevin McCarthy	California

References

1. Paul Gottfried, Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right, p. 9, "Postwar conservatives set about creating their own synthesis of free-market capitalism, Christian morality, and the global struggle against Communism." (2009); Gottfried, Theologies and moral concern (1995) p. 12
2. Laissez-faire capitalism and economic liberalism. Jstor.com. Retrieved on 2014-08-12.
3. No Country for Old Social Conservatives?. Nair. Thecrimson.com. Retrieved on 2014-08-17.
4. "A Rebirth of Constitutional Government". GOP. 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2016-12-27.
5. "Republican Conference Chairmen". US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives. Retrieved 7 January 2019.

External links

• Republican Conference

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