“Unfortunately, the new speaker and House Republicans decided to put political expediency over common decency,” said one critic. Speaker Mike Johnson was among the 182 Republicans and 31 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who on Wednesday night declined to expel Congressman George Santos over his litany of lies and alleged criminal behavior he […]
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. All 209 […]
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 hard-right faction […]
“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 Friday secretly […]