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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 ...
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.
In some high-stakes political drama, the House of Representatives on Friday voted to reelect House Speaker Mike Johnson to lead the 119th Congress by a razor-thin margin. Johnson, a Louisiana ...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) holds Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) grandchild as representatives gather to vote for the new Speaker of the House on the first day of the 119th Congress at the U.S ...
No party has lost House control after a single congressional term since 1954. The Republicans, led by incumbent Speaker Mike Johnson, narrowly maintained control of the House with a small majority of 220 seats (the narrowest since 1930), despite winning the House popular vote by 4 million votes and a margin of 2.6%.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) embrace after she gave a speech to nominate him, as representatives gather to vote for the new Speaker of ...
A speaker election is generally held at least every two years; the House has elected a Speaker 129 times since the office was created in 1789. [2] Traditionally, each political party's caucus/conference selects a candidate for speaker from among its senior leaders prior to the vote, and the majority party's nominee is elected.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy lost five more votes for House speaker on Thursday afternoon as the embarrassment for him and the Republican Party continued. Kevin McCarthy loses 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th ...