The newly-elected Congress takes office on January 3 (every 2 years), as one of their duties is to certify the results of any concurrent Presidential election (every 4 years).
All House of Representative seats are up for election every 2 years, along with about a third of the Senate seats (staggered 6-year terms).
The first session in 2011 of the meeting of the 112th Congress. Congress has two session each year unless the president calls Congress into an additional special session. Every two years, new members are elected in November and a new meeting of those elected takes office the following January. Elections for the 112th Congress were held in November 2010 and the first meeting of the 112th Congress began in January 2011.
Yes, a former president can run for Congress after serving their term in office. There is no constitutional restriction on a former president running for a seat in Congress.
The Senate can remove Federal officials from office. The Senate is responsible for initiating an impeachment of a President of the United States. The Senate can also vote to have a member of the Senate removed for misconduct.
January 3 , 2011 is when the new Congress will take office.
The President of the United States has the power to remove officials from office if he sees them as derelict in their duties in some way, but the action must be approved by Congress if the official does not simply resign. Judges on the Supreme Court, members of the Cabinet, the Vice President, and members of Congress cannot be removed by the President but he may ask them to resign.
In March 1867, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, which prohibited the president from removing government officials, including members of his own cabinet, without the Senate's approval.
On January 20th
The members of congress are voted into office. The Senate serves 6 years and the House is 2 year terms. They meet in the capital building and set their own calendar in January.
No, the president does not have the power to remove the vice president from office. The only way the vice president can be removed from office is through the impeachment process by Congress.
By calling in and reffering to there office
yes
John Quincy Adams