Tensions escalated as the House prepared to vote on a budget resolution. When the House voted on the Senate’s budget resolution during the negotiations over SALT, almost every Republican from New York and New Jersey voted against it. Also joining the fight to preserve SALT were Democratic lawma...
Measures are passed in the House with a majority of those who cast a vote. For instance, McCarthy won the speakership in January on a vote of 216-212, convincing enough of his GOP colleagues who had voted against him to support his bid. The six remaining Republicans who withheld their ...
Jordan faced a total number of holdouts — around 20 on each of two ballots —similar in size to the group who voted against McCarthy. And while the proposal to empower McHenry may happen, the same forces that hindered speaker elections could...
He called on several of the eight lawmakers who voted McCarthy out "to disenthrall themselves from their decision and to repair the damage before it is too late." On Monday, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, of Florida, told CBS News he'd support Kevin McCarthy as speaker instead of the declared ...
Nineteen Republicans voted for neither nominee; 10 of those voted for Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., a protest candidate against McCarthy. It's the first time a speaker hasn't been elected on the first ballot in 100 years. Republicans, after a disappointing midterm cycle, initially hold a narrow 22...
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Monday he’s confident a funding bill will pass this week ahead of the Friday deadline because “no one wants to shut the government down and we are governing, doing the responsible thing as Republicans.” ...
Pushback was fierce, from members of the Freedom Caucus and from the speaker himself. Johnson repeatedly called proxy voting “unconstitutional.” Herself among the more far-right conservatives in the House, her desk adorned with a model of President Donald Trump on Mount Rus...
House Speaker Mike Johnson told GOP representatives last week to skip out on town halls that could be disrupted by “professional protesters.” But Representative Chuck Edwards said he didn’t want to shy away from his constituents in North Carolina. Edwards endured constant jeers, expletives and...
As the fate of President Trump’s agenda hung in the balance in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) turned to what he knows best: prayer. At the end of an hours-long, late-night meeting that came after Johnson was forced to scrap a key vote Wednesda
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the formidable task of persuading216 Democrats to vote for a...Chaddock, Gail Russell