Meet the Clerk
Meet the Clerk
The Clerk is the chief legislative official of the U.S. House of Representatives, which means maintaining records and overseeing the legislative activities of the House. The Clerk does not make laws.
The Founding Fathers created the Clerk's job. In fact, it was written into the U.S. Constitution that the House should have people around to keep everything running smoothly. One of those people is the Clerk.
The Clerk serves a two-year term, and the Members of the House elect the Clerk at the beginning of each new Congress.
The Clerk Today
Kevin F. McCumber is the Acting Clerk of the House of Representatives. Mr. McCumber began his long tenure with the Office of the Clerk in 1996 as a House Page. He rejoined the Clerk's office in 2000 and worked in a variety of roles until 2006, when he left to study political science at the University of Colorado and work for the Lakewood Police Department. He returned to the Clerk's office in 2012 and since then has performed nearly every role in the legislative process in some capacity. Mr. McCumber grew up in Germantown Hills, Illinois, a small farming community east of Peoria.