Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives | Wikipedia audio article
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Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives


00:00:52 1 Privileges of delegates
00:01:35 2 Early history
00:04:41 3 Resident commissioner
00:05:18 3.1 Puerto Rico
00:05:46 3.2 The Philippines
00:06:20 4 Delegates
00:06:47 4.1 American Samoa
00:07:11 4.2 District of Columbia
00:07:56 4.3 The Virgin Islands
00:08:20 4.4 Guam
00:08:49 4.5 Northern Mariana Islands
00:09:52 5 Cherokee and Choctaw Tribes
00:10:20 6 Expanding (and contracting) voting rights
00:12:43 7 Current non-voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives
00:12:59 8 See also



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Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives (called either delegates or resident commissioner, in the case of Puerto Rico) are representatives of their territory in the House of Representatives, who do not have a right to vote on proposed legislation in the full House but are nevertheless able to participate in certain other House functions. Non-voting members may vote in a House committee of which they are a member and introduce legislation. There are currently six non-voting members: a delegate representing the federal district of  Washington D.C.,  a resident commissioner representing Puerto Rico, and one delegate for each of the other four permanently inhabited US Territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands. As with voting members, non-voting delegates are elected every two years, and the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico is elected every four years.