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The One Hundred and Fourteenth United States Congress is the current 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 is scheduled to meet in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 2015 to January 3, 2017, during the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency. The 2014 elections gave the Republicans control of the Senate (and control of both houses of Congress) for the first time since the 109th Congress. With 247 seats in the House of Representatives and 54 seats in the Senate, this Congress began with the largest Republican majority since the 71st Congress of 1929–1931. ==Major events== * January 6, 2015: Incumbent Speaker of the House John Boehner was re-elected despite the defections of 25 members from his own Republican caucus, twice the amount from the previous Congress. * January 20, 2015: 2015 State of the Union Address * March 3, 2015: Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress regarding sanctions against Iran. Netanyahu was invited by Speaker John Boehner without consulting President Obama. * March 9, 2015: U.S. Senator Tom Cotton wrote and sent a letter to the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran, signed by 47 of the Senate's 54 Republicans, attempting to cast doubt on the Obama administration's authority to engage in nuclear-proliferation negotiations with Iran. * March 25, 2015: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani addressed a joint session of Congress.〔Riechmann, Deb (March 26, 2015) - ("In U.S., Ghani Vows Afghan Self-Reliance" ). ''Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette''. Retrieved March 27, 2015. (Archived ) March 30, 2015.〕 * April 29, 2015: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe addressed a joint session of Congress, becoming the first Japanese leader to do so.〔 * September 24, 2015: Pope Francis addressed a joint session of Congress, without consulting President Obama, becoming the first Pope to do so. * September 25, 2015: House Speaker John Boehner announced that he would resign as Speaker and from the House at the end of October 2015. Subsequently, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the presumptive favorite to succeed John Boehner, unexpectedly withdrew his candidacy for the job.〔http://thehill.com/homenews/house/256365-mccarthy-drops-out-of-speakers-race〕 * October 29, 2015: Paul Ryan was elected to succeed John Boehner as Speaker of the House with 236 votes (54.3%) of the House in favor.〔http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll581.xml〕 He is the youngest Speaker since James G. Blaine in 1875.〔http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/10/29/paul-ryan-elected-youngest-speaker-house-since-1875/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「114th United States Congress」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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