Republicans will meet on Tuesday and vote on their official candidate for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives as conservative hardliners within the House Freedom Caucus signal objections to MinorityLeader Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy will need to win a majority of the entire co...
Conservatives: No One Has the Votes for House Speaker. YetConservatives emerged from a late Tuesday night gathering inwhich they questioned a trio of...Ferrechio, Susan
After Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry declared "a speaker has not been elected," he called the House into recess for an indefinite period. House Republicans are expected to huddle tohash out what they'll do next. It's unclear whether they will take more votes this afternoon, or begin s...
It is possible to win the speakership without hitting 217 in this Congress, but in order to do so, a candidate would have to coax some of those in opposition to change their votes from "no" to "present." Measures are passed in the House with a majority of those who cast a vote. ...
And make no mistake about it: This new speaker is not a run-of-the-mill Trump toady. Make no mistake about it: This new speaker is not a run-of-the-mill Trump toady. Johnson was a central player in pushing a lawsuit that would have thrown out tens of millions of ...
Several of those chargedhave pleaded guiltyafter reaching deals with prosecutors. Trump, Roman and the others who remain have pleaded not guilty. Roman was the director of election day operations for the Trump campaign and had also worked in the White Hous...
House Republicans are hearing from the nine GOP lawmakers who are hoping to be the next speaker of the House during a closed-door meeting Monday night.
trigger a new vote for McCarthy to be stripped of his gavel. McCarthy also promised floor votes on key issues, including term limits for House members. The new speaker is also said to have committed that there will be no “clean” vote to raise the federal debt ceiling later this year....
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, selected by his party to be House speaker, can only afford to lose four Republican votes in the House floor election.
The full House votes to elect the speaker. If Republicans can't coalesce around a consensus candidate, Democrats could attempt to build a coalition with Republicans, Green said. Unlike in January, when the House could not begin its work until a speaker was elected, McHenry will serve in the...