https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/house-election-results-2024/#post-update-4ad65a0c link copied 1:59 PM / November 11, 2024 Rep. Elise Stefanik withdraws from House GOP conference race Rep. Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, withdrew her candidacy to be House Republican Conference ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that President Donald Trump, "Whether he knows it yet or not, he will be leaving" the White House after the 2020 presidential election. Trump in a Fox News interview refused to commit to accepting the election results. He argued that mail-in voting, which so...
Republicans nominate Mike Johnson for re-election as House speaker05:00 Share this - Copied Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., chair of the Republican conference, delivered a speech on the House floor to nominate Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., for re-election as House speaker.Jan. 3, 2025Read...
Washington— Rep. Nancy Mace said Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is her pick to be the next House speaker after she was among a small contingent of Republicans who voted tooust Kevin McCarthy from the rolelast week. "I am going to be supporting Jim Jordan for speaker," the South Carolina Rep...
BEIRUT, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced on Thursday that he has called on the parliament to convene an electoral session to elect a president for the country. "I had vowed to myself that immediately after the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, I wi...
speaker fights prompted multiple ballots, which before this year had not happened since 1923. In fact, the current impasse marks just the eighthmultiballot speaker election since 1839, when the House moved from casting secret ballots to recorded voice votes to elect a speaker. And it’s th...
Nancy Pelosi led her party to a historic victory on Election Day. And yet she still faces real hurdles to reclaiming the speaker’s chair after an eight-year absence. The minority leader formally began her bid to become speaker in the 116th Congress on Wednesday night, sending letters to ea...
How many votes are needed to win the election for House speaker? The magic number is usually 218, a simple majority of the 435 members in the House. In the 118th Congress, however, it's currently 217. This year, David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island, resigned in June, and Chris...
Mike Johnson addresses the House chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, after his election as speaker on October 25, 2023. Win McNamee/Getty Images CNN— Republicans’ long public nightmare came to an end this past week when Louisiana’sMike Johnsonbecame the 56th speaker of the House...
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.