In his first major move, House Speaker Mike Johnson, (R-Louisiana), is using the bipartisan goal of providing aid to Israel to pick a fight with President Joe Biden. A new bill House Republicans released Monday includes $14.3 billion in emergency funding for Israel while rescinding the same amount of IRS funding from the Inflation Reduction… Read More
After three weeks without a speaker, the House voted Wednesday afternoon to elect Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana. Johnson secured the gavel without losing any GOP votes with a final tally of 220 votes for Johnson and 209 for House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York). The little-known congressman was first elected in 2016, representing… Read More
House Republicans elected two speaker-designates in the span of ten hours Tuesday, but they failed again to fully unite the conference around a new leader, leaving the House without a speaker for the 21st day in a row. Just four hours after House Republicans selected Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota) as their third speaker-designate in… Read More
House Republicans have just nominated Tom Emmer of Minnesota to be their now third candidate for speaker. The GOP gathered behind closed doors this morning to vote by secret ballot and choose among seven contenders. In the fifth and final round of voting, Emmer defeated Mike Johnson of Louisiana with a vote total of Emmer,… Read More
This afternoon, Republican Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) again failed to win the House speaker’s gavel in a second vote, drawing less support than in an initial vote the day before. The loss raises serious questions over whether the Ohio Republican has a viable path forward as he confronts steep opposition and the House remains in… Read More
In its thirteenth day without a Speaker, the House meets at 12:00 P.M. for legislative business and will begin a quorum call by recorded vote prior to the vote for election of the Speaker. Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is currently short of the votes he needs to be elected speaker, even after the Ohio Republican… Read More
House Republicans are planning to hold a full House vote Tuesday on electing a Speaker, but their nominee, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), is still working to lock down support. Jordan won the nomination with 124 votes within the GOP conference and then claimed 152 votes when members were asked if they would… Read More
“If you see smoke, it’s not a speaker. Someone just set the place on fire,” Ronny Jackson (R-Texas). House Republicans have gone 10 days without a Speaker and seem even further from electing their next leader. House Republicans are meeting again this morning after Representative Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) announced at a Republican conference meeting Thursday… Read More
House Republican members are gathering again this afternoon behind closed doors, to try to hash out a way forward as Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) is scrambling to lock down the votes to become the next House speaker, but protracted opposition to the Louisiana Republican inside the GOP conference and the numerical realities of the… Read More
While the Senate is in recess today, House Republicans just nominated Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) to be the next Speaker, sending his candidacy to the House floor following former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-California) stunning ouster last week. Scalise secured the nomination 113-99 in a closed-door GOP conference meeting, defeating House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim… Read More
