In an apparent troll move, Massie cast his vote for Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), the number three Republican leader who Trump deliberately prevented from taking the job after McCarthy was ousted. The outcome ...

Mike Johnson secured the gavel in dramatic fashion, as he was on track to lose before two Republican defectors changed their vote after speaking to Donald Trump.

Mike Johnson was able to keep his spot atop the US House Friday while seeming to offer minimal binding concessions to hard-right Republicans who had threatened his path to re-election.

Mike Johnson won re-election as Speaker of the House in the first round of voting Friday afternoon. Two Republicans who had ...

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) will get to keep the big gavel after his fellow Republicans voted to re-elect him House ...

There were six additional Republican holdouts who declined to vote the first time around, including Representatives Andy ...

But during an extended delay in which the House clerk held open the vote — and during which Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer conceded that he expected a second ballot — GOP leadership scrambled to ...

Speaker Mike Johnson faces a major challenge in the new Congress: the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years. In a dramatic turn of events, Johnson managed to retain the gavel in a single vote ...

After the pomp, circumstance and photos are all done, the incoming members of the House of Representatives have a single task to complete before anything can be done. They have to elect a Speaker of ...

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the only House Republican to vote against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) while two other GOP ...