The Republican Conference is a party caucus for Republicans in the United States House of Representatives. It is the primary forum for communicating the partys message to members and produces a daily publication of political analysis under the title Legislative Digest. The conference has a chair who directs day-to-day operations and who is assisted by an elected vice chair and a secretary. The current chair is Elise Stefanik of New York, who assumed the position after a vote of the House Republican Conference on May 14, 2021. The Conference is responsible for electing House Republican leadership, approving GOP Member committee assignments, managing leadership-driven floor debates, and more.
There is also a Senate Republican Conference, which focuses on communicating Republican priorities to the American people through television, radio, digital, and other resources. The Republican Conference is dedicated to providing freedom and opportunity for every American and is made up of members from across the country.
It is important to note that the Republican National Political Conventions are separate events from the Republican Conference. The first Republican convention was held in 1856 in Philadelphia, and the Republican Party was formed two years earlier in response to the increasing importance of the slavery issue and its opposition to slavery’s expansion.
