The extension would give the Senate plenty of time to begin confirming Trump's Cabinet nominees and the House time to plot out maneuvers on tax legislation.

A group of hard-line conservatives tanked a procedural vote in revolt of a tentative funding deal negotiated by congressional ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has served in the post for little over a year, but his tenure has been marked with few legislative ...

Republican electoral wins in both the presidential race and the Senate are changing the game on government funding, as ...

WASHINGTON – As speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson must spend most of his time ... Kevin McCarthy for ...

WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday rejected Speaker Mike Johnson's proposal that would ... House Republicans to let a partial government shutdown begin at the end of the month unless they ...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill face major deadlines and key issues on their to-do list after the November elections, including averting a federal government ... House Speaker Mike Johnson and other ...

A pair of key funding priorities await Congress when it gets back in action next week for its lame-duck session, and ...

WASHINGTON — As Speaker Mike ... for Johnson. In his first year, Johnson demonstrated he could be a dealmaker: He worked with Democrats on three separate occasions to avert government shutdowns ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson will move ahead with a temporary spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La ... The continuing resolution Congress passed to avert a government shutdown last month allowed for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to use the fund ...