Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, who is leading the House through the increasingly tumultuous process of finding a permanent speaker, said Republicans will hold another forum for candidates on Monday, with the goal of holding a vote on the floor on Tuesday morning. "It is my goal to be t...
His allies, however, say he was long jaded by the antics of the House following the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. It’s bad timing for Johnson, who is now potentially facing a vote on his ouster in the coming weeks. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) filed the so-called motion...
“I don’t think we will have a need for party discipline and I expect everybody to be working on singing from the same sheet of music,” Johnson told POLITICO. By Olivia Beavers and Jordain Carney11/12/2024, 8:26pm ETOn the eve of the House GOP’s leadership elections, Speaker M...
Barack Obama won the election.The president-elect, technically, was not the president-elect until Thursday afternoon, when a joint session of Congress formally certified the Electoral College votes from each state and the District of Columbia.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, was the ...
So vote while our flag is still there. Get your ass out there, stand in line if you have to, wear the face diaper if you have to, BUT VOTE. According tot he suggestion of the Wallaby, this is an open thread for Election Day talk. ...
Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson, who backed Scalise on the two ballots for speaker,sent a letterto McHenry requesting the House "return immediately" for a third round of voting. The House has been in recess since earlier Wednesday, when Jordan failed to secure the necessary votes to win the gavel...
CBS Minnesota notesthat Emmerearlier declined to seekthe speaker's gavel and said he would instead run to become the House majority leader if that role became vacant in a leadership shuffle. Rep. Ken Buck, one of the leading anti-Jordan members, supported Emmer as speaker, voting for him in...
secretary of state under Monroe, and KentuckianHenry Clay, the speaker of the House of Representatives, who was viewed as the candidate of the West.John C. CalhounofSouth Carolinaabandoned a bid for the presidency, instead choosing to run as the vice presidential nominee for both Adams and ...