The House of Representatives has adopted new rules that would make it harder to trigger a vote to oust a speaker. House lawmakers voted 215-209 along party lines to set the chamber's rules for the ...

Opponents of that plan, which include Republicans on the House Ways & Means Committee, have warned that leaving Trump's tax cuts for a second bill would all but guarantee that provisions he passed ...

The vote was held open as Mr. Johnson huddled off the House floor with members who refused to back him. Two of the holdouts — Representatives Keith Self of Texas and Ralph Norman of South ...

Members of Congress applauded Matt Gaetz’ absence on Friday after a clerk announced that the former U.S. Rep from Florida “will not serve in the House in the 119th Congress.” Gaetz resigned ...

To be elected speaker, a candidate needs to win a majority of members who vote for a specific person on the House floor. The election took place with the majority at 219 to 215, which meant that ...

kept his gavel amid a threat from the right flank of the House GOP, but managing the House GOP is not going to get any easier from here. The dramatic Friday Speaker vote on the House floor – in ...

Around noon, lawmakers congregated on the House floor, and leaders from each party nominated their candidates. Republicans are expected to nominate Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana for another ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President ...

A motion to vacate, the process for removing the speaker, will now require nine sponsors to be considered on the House floor. “A resolution causing a vacancy in the Office of the Speaker shall ...

01/19/2025 January 19, 2025 US President-elect Donald Trump is just days away from taking office again. On the campaign trail he made dozens of promises of what he would do on "day one." DW takes ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R.,Ga.) speaks on the phone with incoming Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday. (evelyn hockstein/Reuters) A Reuters photographer caught Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R.

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