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Republicans retained their slim majority in the House of Representatives, despite losing a seat, during the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections. [17] With a two seat larger majority, in the January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, a faction of the Republican majority, mostly represented by the Freedom Caucus, refused to support Republican ...
On October 25, the full House voted, 220–209, [73] to elect Johnson as the 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives [74] with every Republican member in attendance voting for him. [75] Johnson was also sworn in as speaker on the same day. [73] He is the first speaker in U.S. history from Louisiana. [76]
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Mike Johnson is the new speaker of the House speaker after McCarthy’s ousting. The Louisiana House member played a key role in the 2020 election overturn attempt.
What Johnson’s critics say. Johnson has become the nation’s 56th House speaker in large part because he happened to be the last one standing when his fellow House Republicans reached a point ...
The 119th Congress will begin on Friday, ushering in a new era of Republican control in Washington that will start with a high-stakes leadership fight to pick the next House speaker. Mike Johnson ...
The speaker of the House of Representatives is the House's presiding officer, and the position is explicitly established by the Constitution of the United States. [10] The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially after a general election) or when a speaker dies, resigns, or is removed from the position by a vote held during an active term.
House Republicans applaud Mike Johnson, R-La., after he was reelected as Speaker of the House during the first session of the 119th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Jan. 3, 2025.