Republican Mike Johnson has narrowly won reelection to the House speakership on a dramatic first-ballot vote, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts in a tense standoff.
Johnson administered the oath of office to all House members after he made remarks and was sworn in. There are 434 members, including Johnson, and one vacancy left by Matt Gaetz, who resigned after he was asked to join the Trump administration. Though Gaetz withdrew from consideration to be ...
Shortly before Mike Johnson was sworn in as House speaker on Friday, he stood in front of the incoming members of Congress and offered what he said was “a prayer for the nation” that was said every day Thomas Jefferson was in the White House and “and every day thereafter until his de...
On the other side of the Capitol, senators anticipate far less drama, but will also see new members sworn in. Follow along with live updates below. 12 mins ago Johnson battles for the Speakership: 5 things to watch Mike Lillis Mychael Schnell Friday’s Speaker vote is shaping up to be a...
EAMON JAVERS: Alright this is terrific. Mr. Speaker, you will not remember this but the first time we met, you had just been sworn into office and you were so new at the job at the time that I was hanging out with a couple of your staffers...
A new Congress is set to be sworn in on Friday and the House will vote for its speaker as one of its first orders of business. Current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has worked to shore up support as the GOP narrowly holds control. ...
Johnson was sworn in as the 56th House speaker soon after winning the vote and delivering a speech to lawmakers in the House chamber. "The challenge before us is great, but the time for action is now and I will not let you down," Johnson said. ...
"The Democrats spent $25 million on a special election. Let's not try to make this into some big narrative in November," he said. "It's not." Once Suozzi is sworn in, the GOP's three-vote majority in the House will be shrunk to a two-vote majority....
In the Senate, two Black women — Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland — were being sworn in, both wearing suits in white of the suffragettes, the first time in the nation’s history two Black women senators will serve at the same time. ...
still sworn and voting. A last-ditch push from Sen. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D-N.Y.) and other congressional Democrats to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified appeared to sputter yesterday when the archivist of the U.S. announced she would follow “established legal processes and decisions” and...