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Can the US House of Representatives Operate without a Speaker?

According to 2 USC 25 : Oath of Speaker, Members, and Delegates. (Text contains those laws in effect on January 4, 2023:) “At the first session of Congress after every general election of Representatives, the oath of office shall be administered by any Member of the House of Representatives to the Speaker; and by the Speaker to all the Members and Delegates present, and to the Clerk, previous to entering on any other business; and to the Members and Delegates who afterward appear, previous to their taking their seats.” Essentially, most interpretations of this section state that the oath of office must be administered by the House Speaker. (Can't Members swear each other in?) Until then, all representatives are just Representative-Elects, and don’t hold any actual power. Without a Speaker, there are only 100 members of Congress (the US Senate), and an interim speaker cannot administer the oath.  It appears that "members are operating under the rules for the last Congress"...

Forget Bitcoin, Let’s Talk about Food Safety by Hongcheng Chen, Impact Investment Analyst, Creative Investment Research

The "Killer" Blockchain Application? On February 14, four witnesses (an analyst in Cybersecurity Policy from the Congressional Research Service, the director of NIST's  Information Technology Laboratory, the vice president of food safety of Walmart, the vice president of blockchain technologies of IBM and the Associate Clinical Professor of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law) showed up in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, to testify about blockchain technology before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Subcommittee on Research and Technology. The witnesses answered questions from members of the two subcommittees. Summary I attended this hearing and below are my summarized findings, in case you didn’t have the time to attend this mind-blowing hearing. Mr. Chris A. Jaikaran, analyst in Cybersecurity Policy, covered blockchain applications in cryptocurrencies, healthcare, identity management, and supply chain management. He discussed certain pitfalls of th...