As the House heads into its first session of the new Congress on Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson — the Louisiana Republican who has led the chamber since October 2023 — is not yet assured to be ...

However, several other names floated around before Johnson’s nomination was made official ... Johnson, 52, was elected to Speaker of the House somewhat by chance last year when former ...

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 ...

How many votes Johnson needs to win To be elected speaker ... regardless of if the name was put into nomination or if the individual is a member of the House. Members can also effectively abstain ...

House members applauded an official announcement on Friday that former Republican Representative Matt Gaetz will not return ...

The Speaker then swears-in the rest of the ... D-N.Y. Anyone else can then place someone’s name in nomination. Then, the House calls the roll of Members-elect alphabetically.

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA ... was one of the 20 Republicans who initially blocked McCarthy’s nomination and subsequently stopped Majority Leader Steve Scalise from becoming ...

President Donald Trump has kicked off his second term with a flurry of executive actions on immigration, the economy, DEI and more.

The Texas House on Tuesday elected state Rep ... for Republican incumbents who went against the party’s Speaker nomination. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) and Donald ...