[content id=”79272″] WASHINGTON — Republican Mike Johnson was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, ending lawmakers’ 22-day struggle to pick one of the top leadership positions in the U.S. government. Johnson, 51, a three-term congressman and lower-level member of Republican leadership, won 220-209. He is now second in the presidential line of succession. […]
[content id=”79272″] Nine U.S. Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives – none of them well-known to the American public – announced by the Sunday deadline that they are running to become House speaker, the leader of the lower chamber of Congress. The House has been without a speaker for nearly three weeks after a […]
[content id=”79272″] “It is embarrassing that MAGA House Republicans continue to let the petty sniping and infighting in their own party prevent them from working with the president,” President Joe Biden’s campaign said. In what could be the final nail in the coffin of Ohio GOP Congressman Jim Jordan’s speakership bid, U.S. House Republicans on […]
[content id=”79272″] Far-right U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, confronting two failed attempts to garner the support needed to be elected speaker of the House, intends to back a plan to empower Rep. Patrick McHenry—named speaker pro tempore earlier this month—to act as a temporary speaker until at least January 3, according to new reporting on Thursday. […]