Tag: House Speaker Race

Mike Johnson (R-LA-4), the little known conservative from Louisiana, has been elected to be the 56th speaker of the House. He received 220 votes...

Congressman Mike Johnson from Louisiana has been elected the next speaker of the House following a roll call vote beginning at noon. Described as a...

Floor vote set for noon today... Last evening, the House Republican Conference selected, after secret ballot and “open” roll call vote behind closed doors, Congressman...

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer has had enough. Hours after becoming speaker designate, the Minnesota Republican withdrew his candidacy for speaker of the House. The announcement...

After three hours of five rounds of secret ballot voting, the House Republican Conference selected Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN-6), the current Majority Whip (No....

Is the third time the charm for the House Republican Conference? Following multiple rounds of secret ballot votes, the divided GOP caucus has selected its...

House Republicans now have nine candidates seeking to become the next speaker following Rep. Jim Jordan’s withdrawal as the nominee. While each of the...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-M.D.) named a surprising figure as a potential candidate for House speaker. Most of the House Republican Conference voted to scrap Jim...

Friday morning, on the floor of the House, after a laudatory inspirational nomination speech by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-20), Jim Jordan (R-OH-4) failed...

Is this the most creative solution to the ongoing speaker chaos yet? California Democrat Rep. Brad Sherman suggested filling the vacant speaker of the House...