Correction: An earlier version of this story listed incorrect votes for several GOP representatives. Ohio Republican Representative Jim Jordan failed to win the Speaker of the House chair for the ...

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Tuesday around 6:30 p.m. shortly before some polls closed that the ...

Election Day is here and votes are being counted in what is expected to be one of the closest elections in living memory. Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett sat down with former Speaker of the House Nancy ...

But unlike the 218 votes needed to win the speaker’s gavel, a much lower threshold — just a simple majority of all House Republicans — is needed to win the minority leader post. That vote ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson votes early at the Benton Courthouse and discusses upcoming Congressional priorities.

Johnson faces another threat to speakership over Ukraine and Israel aid plans On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Mike ... made him the only speaker to be voted out of the job. Brooks and Capehart ...

A remark by U.S. vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about putting “a gavel” in her hand has been widely shared without context in posts claiming Walz said he would ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson revealed that the "little secret" he shares with former President Trump is a get-out-the-vote ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to clarify remarks he made at a New York campaign rally where he suggested that ...