Rep. Keith Self is the third Republican to vote against Mike Johnson for Speaker, voting for Byron Donalds instead. Posted: January 3, 2025 | Last updated: January 3, 2025 ...

Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., was reelected House speaker on Jan. 3., receiving the bare minimum, 218 votes. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., was selected by his Republican colleagues as the Senate’s new majority ...

Scott Presler plans to 'Pennsylvania' New Jersey to elect a Republican the next governor. There are five key players, with ...

President Joe Biden on Sunday signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public ...

The biggest problem some Republicans have with House Speaker Mike Johnson is that he works with Democrats. They'll have to get over that.

“It would be up to the states to decide who allocates that funding. It probably varies from state to state. It could be the ...

Trump offered an unequivocal endorsement of Johnson on his Truth Social network on Friday, implying that a failure to return ...

But during an extended delay in which the House clerk held open the vote — and during which Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer conceded that he expected a second ballot — GOP leadership scrambled to ...

The 119th Congress convenes Friday with a huge shift of power in Washington as the GOP takes control of both chambers ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration.

The 119th Congress is convening for the first time and House Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting for his political life — again ...

Johnson faced an uphill battle in maintaining the speaker's gavel and eked out a win after initially coming up short.

In some ways, it’s like the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, that shook the foundations of American democracy, never happened. “It’s been erased,” said Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt. “Winners write history and ...