Mike Johnson was re-elected speaker of the House on Friday after flipping two GOP opponents following an intervention by ...

after successfully avoiding the lengthy speaker vote process former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., endured ahead of the 118th Congress in early 2023. "Congratulations to my friend @SpeakerJohnson!

House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will hold onto his position as head of the chamber after Republicans cast their votes in his favor. President-elect Donald Trump threw his support behind Johnson.

Republican Mike Johnson won the barest of victories on Friday, Jan. 3, when 218 U.S. House representatives voted to re-up his term as speaker to start the 119th Congress. While Johnson was officially ...

The threshold for a vote on the motion had previously been one. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) exploited the low threshold to oust then-House Speaker McCarthy (R-Calif.) , a first in US history.

voted “present” during several Speaker rounds before McCarthy was elected. In a scenario where Massie votes for another candidate and Spartz votes “present,” Johnson can still win.

In 2023, McCarthy allowed just one member to call for a motion to vacate, which prompted a no-confidence vote in the speaker. While McCarthy said this had been the case before the Democrats got ...

Washington — House Republicans released a new rules package on Wednesday that will raise the threshold to force a vote on ousting the speaker. The threshold that allowed a single member to ...

But the vote was not formally gaveled shut after ... Matt Gaetz filed a "motion to vacate" that made McCarthy the first House speaker in history to be ousted from the role. Never miss a story ...

WASHINGTON – Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has already spent more than a year trying to organize a group of House Republicans for whom infighting and chaos have become the norm. The soft-spoken ...

In fact, the vote for Johnson looks eerily similar to the one in favor of former Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be speaker in 2023, taken just months before he was kicked out of that office (events that ...