New Majority Leader Thune kicks off Senate session with pledge to preserve filibuster
WASHINGTON (AP) — New Senate Majority Leader John Thune is kicking off the new session with a promise to preserve the ...
Live updates: Mike Johnson wins House speaker reelection after some GOP holdouts change votes
Congress returned Friday, voting to reelect House speaker Mike Johnson after some Republican holdouts changed their votes.
Mike Johnson re-elected as speaker despite some opposition from the far-right
Congress begins a new session Friday with Republicans now leading both chambers. The House will need to elect a speaker ...
LIVE: Mike Johnson reelected House speaker, winning over GOP critics
In past years, Democratic President Joe Biden, Trump and even a senator, Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, have received votes for House speaker. None received the majority of the vote. And generally, ...
Sen. John Thune says House Speaker Mike Johnson has a 'really tough job' ahead
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the incoming Senate Majority Leader, on Friday said that House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will have "a really, really tough job," navigating a narrow majority.
House passes rules package that will raise threshold for motion to vacate speaker — after re-electing Johnson
Under the new rules package, which cleared the lower chamber in a near-party-line vote, 215-209, a motion to vacate the chair ...
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Higher education overhaul, intoxicating hemp ban among bills that didn’t pass this General Assembly
Some of these bills would have made drastic changes to Ohio colleges and universities ( Senate Bill 83 ), banned the sale of intoxicating hemp products ( Senate Bill 326 ), added low-performing public ...
Harris swears in Republican Senate in final weeks of vice presidency
The Senate’s events marked one of Harris’s last constitutional duties as president of the Senate before she and President Joe Biden depart from office on Jan. 20 and Trump and Vice President-elect J.D ...
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Hardline House Republicans Make Clear They Voted For Speaker Johnson Only Out of ‘Steadfast’ Support For Trump
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) released a letter Friday signed by him and 10 other hard-line members of the House Freedom Caucus after they voted to reelect Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). In the letter, the House ...
119th Congress: Votes changed, Johnson wins first ballot (live updates)
After the pomp, circumstance and photos are all done, the incoming members of the House of Representatives have a single task ...
Mike Johnson hangs on, but his challenges are only beginning: From the Politics Desk
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who has railed for weeks against Johnson, cast his vote for Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn. And Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., voted for Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ...
Slotkin sworn in as new US senator, new House members wait for speakership vote to end
Elissa Slotkin is neither a congressman nor a senator-elect any longer, having been sworn in as Michigan's newest U.S. senator Friday afternoon with the installation of the 119th Congress. Across the ...