Nine GOP lawmakers at first either abstained from voting for Johnson or voted for a different person for speaker. All but one, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, changed their vote to Johnson before ...

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President-elect Donald Trump put down his 9 iron and picked up his phone on Friday to convince Republican holdouts to vote for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Trump, 78, was apparently on the ...

Democrats are united in backing Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D, NY) which means if another Republican joins Massie in voting for an alternative candidate, Mike Johnson could fall short of a majority.

You may have missed her powerful moment from Friday’s House speakership vote if you’re not a C-SPAN junkie like me, but you ought to see it. The Democrat from the U.S. Virgin Islands made a ...

Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, and Keith Self of Texas—had initially denied Johnson a majority by voting for someone else. But Norman and Self switched their votes ...

The Louisiana Republican initially fell short of the threshold and the vote was kept open as he conferred with lawmakers in a side room just off the House chamber.

Mike Johnson is still the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives. Following a vote on Friday, January 3, 2025, the 52-year-old GOP member managed to keep his speakership by a slim margin.

See how every lawmaker voted here. • Trump’s challenge: The first vote of the 119th Congress underscored the president-elect’s hold over the Republican Party — and the tall task of keeping ...

Self and Norman were seen disappearing into a side room with Johnson and others after the roll call vote was complete, but before the vote was formally closed. Self then confirmed to reporters ...

A collection of hardline Republicans convened in the back of the House chamber during a tense roll call on the first day of the new Congress, one by one declining to vote or choosing another lawmaker.

The scramble—disruptive but not shocking at this point in a chamber marked by its proud dysfunction—stood to delay Monday’s vote to certify President-elect Donald Trump’s victory ...