WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to avoid the same ... drawn-out floor fight for the speaker’s gavel. A small band of right-wing rabble-rousers is threatening to derail ...

Matt Gaetz was right—lawmakers did reelect Mike Johnson as speaker of the House on the first ballot on Friday. But that’s not to say that the Louisiana Republican’s path back to the gavel ...

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson (Republican of Louisiana) pounds the gavel in the House Chamber before Representatives cast a vote that would re-elect him Speaker the US ...

If no one quickly wins the gavel, certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory could be delayed.

WASHINGTON – House Republicans gave Mike Johnson the speaker's gavel on Friday – along with a warning. Nine GOP lawmakers at first either abstained from voting for Johnson or voted for a ...

Mike Johnson will attempt to ... Republicans’ 219-215 margin means Johnson can afford no more than one GOP defection. Here's how the speaker vote works and House members to watch during the ...

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was vocally critical of Mike Johnson ahead of Friday's vote to reelect him House ...

Trump "has already said that he believes that Mike will be the speaker… but he did caveat ... After three weeks of paralysis, Johnson grabbed the gavel. By all accounts, the congressman from ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing forward with President Donald Trump's requested budget deal, mocking "flailing" ...

Congress returned Friday, voting to reelect House speaker Mike Johnson after some Republican holdouts changed their votes.

Happy Monday! Just two days into 2025, the surgeon general issued an official advisory about the health hazards of alcohol consumption. We can’t imagine what Dr. Vivek Murthy got up to on New ...