Pennsylvania . The Republicans also maintained their majority in the House of Representatives by winning 220 seats .
Congress has already begun organizing for the next Congress . In the Senate , Senator John Thune ( R-SD ) prevailed in his race to serve as Majority Leader by beating out Senators John Cornyn ( R-TX ) and Rick Scott ( R- FL ). We also know that Senator Bill Cassidy ( R-LA ) will be the Chairman of the Senate Health , Education , Labor and Pensions ( HELP ) Committee , where he served as Ranking Member in this current Congress . Though Senator Rand Paul ( R-KY ) is more senior on the HELP Committee than Senator Cassidy , Paul declined to pursue that gavel . Instead , he chose to serve as Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee , currently serving as the Ranking Member .
In the House , Speaker Johnson ( R-LA ), Majority Leader Scalise ( R-LA ), and Majority Whip Emmer ( R- MN ) were all renominated to serve in their leadership positions again in the next Congress . President-elect Trump nominated Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik ( R-NY ) to serve as his Ambassador to the United Nations , so she was not renominated for her leadership position . Instead , Representative Lisa McClain ( R-MI ) was nominated as Republican Conference Chair , beating out Representative Kat Cammack ( R-FL ).
Republicans in the House of Representatives have not yet selected their committee chairs for the next Congress . Representatives Tim Walberg ( R-MI ) and Burgess Owens ( R-UT ) are candidates for the Education and Workforce Committee chair . The Republican Steering Committee has yet to set a date for selecting its slate of chairs .
President-elect Trump has been moving quickly to nominate his selections to serve in his cabinet , sprinting way ahead of where he was after the 2016 elections . President-elect Trump selected former Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer ( R-OR ) to serve as his Secretary of the Department of Labor ; Chavez-DeRemer lost her reelection bid this year . This pick is a bit unusual , as the Teamsters Union was pushing for her selection while the business community was cool on her selection . Chavez-DeRemer was only one of three Republicans to cosponsor the controversial bill known as the Protecting the Right to Organize Act ( PRO Act ), which contains every priority for organized labor , including a provision to prohibit states from organizing as Right to Work states , including incoming HELP Committee Chairman Cassidy ’ s home state of Louisiana . While on the Education and Workforce Committee , Chavez-DeRemer also failed to vote in favor of the Congressional Review Act resolution seeking to overturn the Department of Labor ’ s rule on determining who is an independent contractor .
The other significant selections to serve in the Trump cabinet include Senator Marco Rubio ( R-FL ), who will serve as Secretary of State . Trump also selected Scott Bessent to serve as his Secretary of the Treasury . Bessent is currently running the Key Square Group hedge fund .
Other Issues of Interest
The Federal Trade Commission ’ s ( FTC ) efforts to ban companies from using non-compete agreements were put on hold in August . On August 20 , 2024 , the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a summary judgment to the plaintiff in the case Ryan LLC vs . FTC , thereby stopping the FTC
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