If the House cannot elect a Speaker before Jan. 20, Chuck Grassley could become the acting president, and the Senate could ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) did not win reelection during the first round of voting on Friday, ushering in a state ...

The deadlocked speaker election will soon enter a second round of voting after no candidate earned a majority of the ...

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

House Speaker Mike Johnson held on and won the speakership again Friday, overcoming opposition from irate Republicans who ...

With Johnson being able to spare only one Republican vote in the closely divided House, several Republicans withheld their support in the run-up to the vote. And three members initially voted against ...

Mike Johnson’s failed speakership bid shows how hard it may be for the narrow Republican majority to enact Trump’s ...

Members of the House of Representatives applaud after U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-SC), was elected Speaker of the House on the ...

After the pomp, circumstance and photos are all done, the incoming members of the House of Representatives have a single task ...

The Senate is convening for the start of the 119th Congress on Friday, with a dozen new senators joining the upper chamber.

Johnson said he thinks he will lose perhaps only a single detractor, and hopes to win the speakership on the first round of ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson failed to win reelection on the first ballot taken among the members of the 119th Congress on ...