Kevin McCarthy has been elected speaker of the House of Representatives after a grueling series of failed ballots.
Despite the dim prospects for the bill, Johnson had said just the day before he would push ahead with the vote. He has embraced concerns that some of the migrants who have entered the country at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years could swing the elections, thou...
Johnson said following his victory that the House will move swiftly on several legislation, alluding to the GOP infighting that paralyzed the House. In the first vote under his speakership, House lawmakers passed a resolution in support of Israel with bipatisan votes. CNN’s Piper Hudspeth ...
On Friday, he again pointed to a sweeping set of immigration measures that the House passed last year as being the answer to the nation’s border challenges. But that bill failed to gain a single Democratic vote then and has virtually no chance of picking up Democratic support now, which ...
2 of 2| FILE - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks at a campaign rally March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga. House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of being ousted. Greene filed a “motion to vacate” Friday, March 22, in the middle of a House vote on a $1.2 trillion package to ...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, fresh off of a days-long speakership battle, faces his first test on Monday evening as the chamber prepares to vote on a rules package to jump start the new Congress. The package sets the rules for how the chamber will operate in t...
House Speaker Designate Mike Johnson (R-La.) is greeted by other House members during a vote to elect a Speaker of the House, Oct. 25, 2023. | Francis Chung/POLITICO MAGA MIKE’S LOOMING GAVEL WOES —House Republicans’ three-week-long nightmare is over. But for new SpeakerMIKE JOHNSON...
“It is now the responsibility of the GOP members to end the House Republican Civil War,” Jeffries said, announcing the Democratic leadership would vote for the motion to oust the speaker. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden “hopes the House will quickly elect a Speak...
Running out of options, McCarthy revived the border security package he first tried to attach to a temporary government funding bill earlier this month. But he still faces a handful of hard-right holdouts led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who say they won’t vote for any CR, denying ...
Firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene to Force Vote to Oust US House Speaker Johnson More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) yells out at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as Jeffries introduces newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Joh...