The House of Representatives will soon vote for a speaker of the House to lead the chamber for the next two years under the incoming Republican administration. The previous race for the top House ...

If, however, Johnson does not get the votes for reelection, the House and the country could enter unknown territory, as the Journal notes: If no speaker is elected by Jan. 6, Congress likely won ...

But before lawmakers can do anything else, they must elect a speaker. It is no easy task, given Republicans’ razor-thin margin and internal divisions. Even though President-elect Donald Trump ...

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said Tuesday that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) does not have the votes to keep the gavel and that he remains undecided on whether he can support the Louisiana Republican in ...

During a December struggle over a government funding bill, several Republican members of Congress suggested that Elon Musk, the close Trump ally and billionaire businessman who was recently ...