The speaker will soon appoint a chairman for the Rules Committee. That will be one of his first, most important moves in the ...

Under the new rules package, which cleared the lower chamber in a near-party-line vote, 215-209, a motion to vacate the chair ...

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

House Speaker Mike Johnson (Louisiana) is seeking to shore up support among fellow Republicans for reelection to his post as ...

Mike Johnson will retain the gavel as Speaker of the U.S. House after a fluid round of voting in the chamber on Friday.

The key change would raise the threshold for a motion to vacate, by which any lawmaker can force a vote on ousting the ...

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are holding their fire despite Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) bucking their ...

Republican Mike Johnson got to keep his job as House speaker thanks to two representatives who changed their votes after ...

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the only Republican to vote against Johnson in the end, after Reps. Keith Self, R-Texas and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., initially voted for someone else but then switched ...

Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and ...

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.