Watch CBS News Preview: Speaker of the HouseScott Pelley interviews House Speaker Paul Ryan about his relationship with President-elect Donald Trump and the first issues he will address after the inauguration. Pelley reports on Sunday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.Dec 2, 2016...
As speaker of the House, Johnson will have final say over what bills make it to the floor. Funding the government past a deadline of Nov. 17 is the most pressing item on the agenda. Johnsonsent a letter to his colleagueson Monday laying out a tentative schedule for how he would approac...
With his job on the line, House Speaker Mike Johnson is dashing to Florida to meet with Donald Trump this week. He has also offered far-right Rep.
At the same time, hardline House conservatives have become vocal opponents of any compromise on immigration policy. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a hard-right Republican of Georgia, has threatened to initiate an effort to oust Johnson if he put the Senate deal on the House floor. “This bill ...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been voted out of the job in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history.
advocates of surveillance reform said the real reason for the delay was because the reauthorization's backers didn't feel they could pass it without including the warrant requirement. "it's time to stop punting and bring the debate over warrantless fisa surveillance to the house floor...
“I am not resigning,”Johnson said after a testy morning meeting of fellow House Republicans at the Capitol Johnson referred to himself as a“wartime speaker”of the House and indicated in his strongest self-defense yet he would press forward with a U.S. national s...
These latest developments came after the House twice failed to elect a speaker this week after a small group of renegade Republicansprecipitated the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthyon Oct. 3. Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the official GOP speaker nominee, fell 18 votes short of a majority on the...
lawmakers approved before McCarthy's ouster, with a new deadline of Nov. 17. Approving more aid for Ukraine has also become a divisive issue among the GOP, with most Republicans in the House opposing a new round of aid in the latest vote and Senate Republican leaders supporting continued ...
GOP Rep. Mike Johnson secured the speaker’s gavel without losing any Republican votes Wednesday after weeks of party infighting left the House in chaos. Follow here for the latest live news updates.