House lawmakers are poised to vote on a new speaker. Here’s how the process works, and who’s running. Photo: samuel corum/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images House lawmakers are returning to Washington Monday with a key task at hand: electing a new speaker. Choosing a ...
SPEAKER JOHNSON: President Biden was certified as the winner of the election, he took the oath of office, he's been the president for three years. What the argument that we presented to the court, which is our only avenue to do so, was that the Constitution was clearly violated in the ...
it has become a rite of passage for the speaker to engage in a path of confrontation against the White House. The usual aim is to coerce them into making politically humiliating concessions through the power of government shutdowns. In the constitution, it is the U.S...
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced Monday that he will postpone theelections for the Republican leadership positionsuntil after the House formally chooses a new speaker on Oct. 29.The GOP conference will meet Thursday, Oct. 8 to pick its candidate for speaker of the House. The vote...
A government shutdown looms ahead of Christmas after President-elect Donald Trump rejected a bipartisan temporary spending measure – and delivered a sharp rebuke to the Republican House speaker in the process. Aneeta Mathur-Ashton Dec. 18, 2024 New Construction Picks Up in November ...
-- On Sept. 24, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the initiation of a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump over the latter's controversial phone call with the Ukrainian president. -- On Sept. 25, the White House released a memo of the highly controversial July phone call between...
Tonight, following the Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance, the next order of business is for the House to vote on the 14th Manual Roll Call Vote on the election of the Speaker of the House. If the Speaker is elected and receives the Oath of Office, they will administer the Oath to Members...
The speaker of the House of Representatives Pres. George W. Bush: 2007 State of the Union addressPres. George W. Bush delivering the State of the Union address in 2007, applauded by the second in command, Vice Pres. Dick Cheney (left), and the third in command, Speaker of the House ...
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, said in a statement. "He will serve ...
Late Tuesday after Johnson won the speaker nomination, a reporter asked Johnson about his push to overturn the results of the 2020 election, but Republicans replied with shouts of "boo." Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina yelled "shut up, shut up!" ...