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 ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., narrowly held onto the gavel in a nail-biter vote on Friday afternoon. Republicans eager to swear in President-elect Trump later this month and capitalize on ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.

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

is predicting that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will remain in the top job for six years. The forecast from Gingrich — who wielded the gavel from 1995-99 — comes days after Johnson was ...

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 different ...

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 ...

But Johnson is also in trouble because many of the key votes ostensibly for him look more like votes for the Republican agenda in spite of him. After the vote, leaders of the House Freedom Caucus, a ...

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