House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Jordan ran against each other within the Republican conference to be the GOP speaker nominee. Scalise was the first Republican selected by his party, but when he could not secure the backing of enough of Jordan's supporters,he dropped his bid. Jordan h...
WASHINGTON, April 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan will not run for re-election in November, his office confirmed on Wednesday. "This morning Speaker Ryan shared with his colleagues that this will be his last year as a member of the House," Brendan Buck, counselor to Ryan,...
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More fiscal support for state and local municipalities has for months been a key demand from Democrats and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "As I've said repeatedly in the last few months, we need another rescue package," McConnell said. "Hopefully, the partisan passions that prevented ...
Ryan has been in Congress since 1999 and became House speaker in 2015 after serving successively as chair of the House Budget Committee and chair of the House Ways and Means Committee. In the 2012 U.S. presidential election, he was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the Unite...
Marcel Ciolacu, parliament's lower house speaker and the leader of the Social Democrats, Romania's largest party, said the coalition's sizeable majority would help to tackle overlapping health, energy and economic crises. "When you have such a majority you must also aim to ...
Thirty-two House elections remain unresolved. The losses led to reported tensions on a House Democratic caucus call as lawmakers grappled with what went wrong for the party. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said "we did not win every battle but we did win the war," according to NBC News. ...
Hours to go before a midnight government shutdown , the House approved a new plan late Friday from Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but drops President-elect Donald Trump's demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. December 20, ...
Mike Johnson, who was elected House speaker, took the lead in filing a brief in a lawsuit that sought to overturn Biden’s 2020 election win.