Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Seal of the Speaker
Flag of the Speaker
Incumbent Ian Bellinger since January 16th, 2022
United States House of Representatives
Style	Mr Speaker (informal and within the House) The Honorable (formal)
Status	Presiding officer
Seat	United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.
Nominator	Major parties (normally)
Appointer	The House
Term length	At the House's pleasure; elected at the beginning of the new Congress by a majority of the representatives-elect, and upon a vacancy during a Congress.
Constituting instrument	United States Constitution
Formation	March 4, 1789 231 years ago
First in-sim holder	Bakk
Deputy	Speaker Pro Tempore

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives, and is simultaneously the House's presiding officer, de facto leader of the body's majority party, and the institution's administrative head. Speakers also perform various other administrative and procedural functions. Given these several roles and responsibilities, the speaker usually does not personally preside over debates. That duty is instead delegated to members of the House from the majority party. Neither does the speaker regularly participate in floor debates.

The Constitution does not require the speaker to be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives, although every speaker thus far has been. As per the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, the Speaker was second in the line of succession to the presidency, however after it was ruled unconstitutional by Rincewind vs United States, the position is no longer in the Presidential line of succession.