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The House of Representatives on Friday votes to elect a speaker for the new Congress. Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican who ascended to the leadership post in 2023 after the historic ouster of ...
The Speaker of the House of the 119th Congress is now facing several critical political ... While the high-stakes fight to lead the House of Representatives is over, Speaker Mike Johnson’s ...
Good morning and welcome to The Independent’s live coverage as the 119th Congress convenes in Washington DC and the House of Representatives elects its speaker, with Donald Trump’s Republican ...
Republicans retained their slim majority in the House of Representatives, despite losing a seat, during the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections. [16] 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: A Study of Leadership (Yale University Press; 2010) 292 pages; Examines partisan pressures and other factors that shaped the leadership of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; focuses on the period since 1940. Grossman, Mark. Speakers of the House of Representatives (Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2009 ...
On October 25, the full House voted, 220–209, [72] to elect Johnson as the 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives [73] with every Republican member in attendance voting for him. [74] Johnson was also sworn in as speaker on the same day. [72] He is the first speaker in U.S. history from Louisiana. [75]
The House elects a new speaker by roll call vote when it first convenes after a general election for its two-year term, or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position intra-term. A majority of votes cast (as opposed to a majority of the full membership of the House) is necessary to elect a speaker. [ 1 ]
The House of Representatives has adopted new rules that would make it harder to trigger a vote to oust a speaker.. House lawmakers voted 215-209 along party lines to set the chamber's rules for ...