House SpeakerMike Johnsonwon a fifth term in District 4. Johnson was first elected in 2016, along with Donald Trump. Johnson, a staunch conservative popular with the former president’s base, hasrefused to acceptthe outcome of the 2020 presidential election. He was elected Speaker in 2023 after...
Reports on the results of the July 25, 1996 United States House vote to reject a Democrat-sponsored measure to overhaul campaign finance rules as well as the campaign reform bill pushed by Speaker Newt Gingrich. Background on the two...
“I couldn't care less what Donald Trump thinks about the speaker of the House. What I care about are the members who can vote on him and get it done,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). “They should box out the outside influences and lead.” Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), wh...
“The GOP will grow our House majority, we will take back the Senate and we will return Donald J. Trump to the White House,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said. “Standing arm in arm, we will make America safe again.” House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) in his spe...
storylines unique to 2022, look at the VAR breakdown by party. The median Democratic member was elected with a 1.1 VAR. But the performance of the median Republican member (VAR: 3.5) was 2.4 points stronger — falling in line with the GOP’s 2.8-point margin in the national popular vote...
It took Goldilocks three tries to find the porridge that was “just right.” But on Thursday, House Republicans vacillated on whether a third House speaker vote would be to their taste. Initially, some Republicans moved toward a potential plan to formally empower acting Speaker Pro Tempore...
Wild was seeking a fourth term in Washington. She faced state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, who represented part of Lehigh County and had thebacking of President-elect Donald TrumpandSpeaker of the House Mike Johnson. CBS News has projected Mackenzie as the winner in the race. ...
GOP House Speaker Tim Moore decried the ruling as a "judicial coup" andvowed to fight the decision, including potentially appealing it to the U.S. Supreme Court. But … he might not have to. (Hence the… sortaabove.) Republicans have the chance to functionally reverse this ruling at the...
The former president was also pressed on his actions on Jan. 6 by another man who said Trump had lost his vote over the riot and over his handling of Covid-19. Those who stormed the Capitol “didn’t come because of me, they came because of the election. They tho...
a coordinated attempt to ignore, undermine, and undo the will of the American people never before seen in our history; and a new wave of aggressive attacks on voting rights taking place in states across the country, I applaud Speaker Pelosi and the House of Representatives for ...