Johnson won 218 votes, just enough to keep his job. Both the House and the Senate enter the new session with Republicans in the majority, the party having taken control from Democrats in the Senate.

Despite staunch objections from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Johnson convinced the remainder of the Republican caucus that he could do the job. That being said, a faction of the GOP remains likely ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) vowed Friday to “reduce the size and scope of the federal government” among several other commitments as he fights to keep his gavel this week. “If we don’t ...

Half Native American, Leyba is a 'Sexpressionist'. His works have been collected by, the Vincent Price Archive, William S. Burroughs Archive, Stephen King, Clive ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) succeeded in keeping his gavel for the 119th Congress, winning in the House’s Speakership vote in one round Friday. Johnson, who had a one-vote margin of error, won ...

Republicans won control of the ... to applause. Mike Johnson re-enters the chamber to applause from both sides of the aisle, followed by his second-in-command, Rep. Steve Scalise, House Minority ...

Provided that Democrats stick together, all it will take is two Republican dissenters to thwart anything Johnson does. And this could be beyond even Trump’s control: Two of the most skeptical ...

The speaker election was on track to get deadlocked after a small handful of House Republicans rebelled against Johnson's candidacy, until two holdouts flipped their votes at the last second Kyler ...

REEDSBURG, Wis. (WKOW) — One person has been displaced after a house fire in Reedsburg Friday morning. Firefighters responded at about 9 a.m. to a house in the 2700 block of East Main Street. One ...

Mike Johnson is elected House speaker during the first ballot, securing the gavel after Reps. Ralph Norman and Keith Self initially voted for other candidates. The Hill's Drew Petrimoulx and Julia ...

The Speaker vote will not be the end of headaches for the newly reelected Speaker, despite GOP trifecta control of Washington, given the slim majority. Johnson will now be tasked with balancing ...

Johnson’s allies cheered his willingness to stand up to the GOP hardliners, without alienating them. “When you surrender to your hostage takers, you lose control of your, in this case ...