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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., wrote on X after the successful vote. Johnson was elected to serve as speaker again by a vote of 218-215-1, with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., the only ...
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) talks to a colleague as the House votes on a Speaker of the House on the first day of the 119th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 03, 2025.
PHOTO: Rep. Mike Johnson leaves the floor after the House failed to elect a Speaker of the House in the first vote on the first day of the 119th Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol, Jan ...
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 ...
Thomas Massie casts his vote for Rep. Tom Emmer as the House votes on a Speaker of the House on the first day of the 119th Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol, Jan. 03, 2025, in ...
The House Republican Conference vote was held on November 15, 2022, and despite a challenge from Biggs, McCarthy won the majority of votes, becoming the Republican nominee for speaker of the House. As McCarthy won less than 218 votes, a majority of the seats in the House, the media started questioning his ability to be voted in as Speaker.
Mike Johnson was re-elected Speaker of the House on Friday after two GOP holdouts decided to change their votes before the second round of voting was set to begin.. It was a high-stakes election ...
A majority of votes cast (as opposed to a majority of the full membership of the House) is necessary to elect a speaker. By House precedents, votes of present are not to be included in the official vote total, only votes cast for a person by name are; even so, they have been counted on several occasions. [3]