Mike Johnson was re-elected speaker of the House on Friday after flipping two GOP opponents following an intervention by ...
Congress returned Friday, voting to reelect House speaker Mike Johnson after some Republican holdouts changed their votes.
House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.
In a split from most of their party, three Texas House Democrats voted for far-right-backed Texas Rep. David Cook in Tuesday's House Speaker race—one of whom was the sole Democratic House Speaker ...
President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on his endorsement of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Friday morning, hours before a high-stakes House vote on whether to keep him in power.
The new House of Representatives meets for the first time on Friday. But before lawmakers can do anything else, they must elect a speaker. It is no easy task, given Republicans’ razor-thin ...
The House of Representatives has adopted new rules that would make it harder to trigger a vote to oust a speaker. House lawmakers voted 215-209 along party lines to set the chamber's rules for the ...
McCaul pledged to make the resolution the first thing the House passed under a new ... weeks of stalemate with his election as speaker just before the vote, said in his first remarks in the ...
Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, was elected speaker of the Texas House on Tuesday, concluding a bitter and intense power ...
The House of Representatives will soon vote for a speaker of the House to lead the chamber for the next two years under the incoming Republican administration. The previous race for the top House ...
Mike Johnson is still the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives. Following a vote on Friday, January 3, 2025, the 52-year-old GOP member managed to keep his speakership by a slim margin.
Johnson, 52, was elected to Speaker of the House somewhat by chance last year ... Representative Chip Roy, of Texas, has yet to confirm if he will vote for Johnson as well. Despite that, Johnson ...