R.H. Melton
It may still be days before enough races are called to determine who controls the House, but the dynamic means that Republicans have a slight advantage in keeping their thin majority. House Speaker Mike Johnson is upbeat about the GOP’s chances of sweeping into power, but House Democratic Lea...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has presented an alternative plan to the recent Fiscal Responsibility Act introduced by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Paul’s proposal comes as the agreement from McCarthy and Biden has drawn discontent among some Republican lawmakers, who ...
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who attended a closed-door meeting this week where party leaders urged members to concentrate on policy issues, told Reuters on Thursday that he had not spoken to Trump or the Trump campaign about how to message regarding Harris. ...
House Republicans left their meeting Monday night still unclear on how quickly the chamber could elect a new speaker. Reps. Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise are vying for the position, but some members said they were holding out hope for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to be reinstated to hi...
“Every time you start to get confident, pick up an article about Tom Dewey,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a convention luncheon this week, referring to a Republican challenger who was favored against a struggling Democratic president in 1948. ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson will move ahead with a temporary spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown. ByThe Associated PressSeptember 17, 2024 Chiang Ying-ying - File / AP Nikki Haley Signs Deal to Host Her Own Talk Show ...
Other investigative ideas under consideration among House Republicans include establishing their own select committee – or repurposing the current one – to investigate matters such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s role in Capitol security enforcement on January 6, 2021; the intelligence and security failures...
But Democrats’ sudden reliance on states like Georgia underscored Republicans’ ability to take states off the map, denying Democrats a number of pickup opportunities, including in hard-fought races in Maine, Iowa and Montana. Collins of Maine defeated state House speaker Sara Gideon, proving that...
The Wednesday vote came a day after Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced they would form a bipartisan task force together — a joint statement that followed behind-the-scenes talks between the two House leaders. House leadership is expected to name their ...