There’s A Good Chance Speaker Mike Johnson Is History
House Republicans are enraged at another Speaker, so if Marjorie Taylor Greene goes through with her motion to vacate, Mike Johnson is probably done.
House Republicans are enraged at another Speaker, so if Marjorie Taylor Greene goes through with her motion to vacate, Mike Johnson is probably done.
More House Republicans are fed up and want to immediately leave, if they do, there is a realistic chance that Democrats could take control of the House.
House Republicans are described as having the knives out and are angry that Speaker Mike Johnson agreed with Democrats to keep the government funding level in place.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) spoke about democracy after the Speaker election, and called out Republican election deniers.
Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is not ok. McCarthy has been described as melting down and having outbursts during meetings because can’t handpick the next Speaker of the House.
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) described Republicans in his district as angry and upset that the GOP can’t pick a Speaker.
Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has made it clear to Republicans what they want in exchange for sitting out the next Speaker of the House vote.
House Republicans held a vote and kicked Jim Jordan out of the Speaker race. They will go home for the weekend and then try again to do the basics of governing next week.
House Republicans didn’t want their old Speaker, so they kicked him out. House Republicans didn’t want Jim Jordan to be Speaker, but he refuses to leave.
House Republicans held a conference meeting that lasted for more than four hours that included a member nearly lunging for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
Rep. Drew Ferguson said the death threats started coming into his office as soon as he flipped his vote away from Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) tried to threaten his way into becoming Speaker of the House, and his plan totally backfired.
Kevin McCarthy is having trouble moving on, as he is blaming Democrats for getting fired as Speaker of the House.
Even before 22 House Republicans rejected Jim Jordan to be the next Speaker, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “Pretty soon, we’ll have Hakeem.”
Once Rep. Jim Jordan’s second attempt at being elected Speaker of the House fails, House Republicans are expected to introduce a resolution to elevate acting Speaker pro tem Patrick McHenry to the post for a limited period.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) vowed to hold as many votes as it takes to be elected speaker. So far, he stopped trying for the day after losing one vote.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) thinks that he can wear down his opposition and become the next Speaker of the House, but 20 House Republicans are solid votes against him.
Meet The Press’s Kristen Welker twice asked questions trying to blame Democrats for the Republican speaker disaster, but House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wasn’t playing along.
In response to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) potentially forcing a speaker vote on the House floor, anti-Jordan votes threatened to not show up and let Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) win the election.
Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told House Republicans that the only way out of their speaker crisis is a coalition government.
After Steve Scalise dropped out, Republicans only have Jim Jordan running for speaker at the moment, but they have threatened moderate Republicans who may consider working with Democrats to elect a speaker.
Some House Republicans are starting to publicly say that they might not be able to elect a Speaker of the House on their own and may need the help of Democrats.
House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul said that he sees a lot of threats in the world, but one of the biggest is in his own House Republican caucus.
While Democrats aren’t formally engaged in trying to flip any Republican speaker votes yet, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) powerfully argued for why five of them should vote for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
In contrast to the chaos among House Republicans, House Democrats renominated Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in less than 10 minutes.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is refusing to vote for Rep, Steve Scalise (R-LA) because he has cancer, which means that House Republicans are still in chaos.
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) said that he won’t vote for Jim Jordan (R-OH) or Steve Scalise (R-LA) to be the next Speaker of the House because both refused to say that Biden won in 2020.
It illustrates the contrast between the two parties that the candidate currently with the most votes to be elected Speaker of the House is Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
As Kevin McCarthy plots a comeback to be House Speaker, a recent poll found that 60% of Americans supported his removal, and 75% said he was ineffective.
Trump endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House, but Jordan still doesn’t have the votes to win and be elected.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is calling supporters and testing the waters for running to be the next Speaker of the House.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will be looking to pass a short-term continuing resolution on Tuesday, if McCarthy passes the resolution in the House, it will cost him his job.
House Republicans say that Steve Bannon is lobbying them to elect Donald Trump to be Speaker of the House.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that Kevin McCarthy is getting a once-in-a-century humiliation for whitewashing an insurrection.
House Democrats have stated that they will vote for Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on every ballot, as Kevin McCarthy will get zero Democratic votes for Speaker.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy is worried that he doesn’t have the votes to be elected Speaker of the House, so he tried to convince Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) to switch parties, but Cuellar said no.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is insisting that Kevin McCarthy doesn’t have enough support in the Republican caucus to be speaker.
Trump’s allies keep floating him for House Speaker, but if Trump were Speaker, he would be subject to strict disclosure rules that carry a possible 5-year prison term for violations.
When Joe Biden won the White House this November, Democrats thought they wouldn’t have to deal with Donald Trump for number of years. That might not be true, though. If Trump wanted to, he could easily win a Republican house seat in the state of Florida. And if Republicans won back the House at the…
Mitch McConnell runs a pretty right ship. And as a result, he seemingly has GOP senators in lock-step behind him. The Kentucky senator has moved on from Donald Trump and has advised his colleagues to do the same. Things are much different in the House of Representatives. Kevin McCarthy was originally critical about Donald Trump…
After two weeks of the federal government being shut down, President Donald Trump is now less popular than new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) The results came from a new Gallup poll which found that Pelosi has a favorable rating of 38% and an unfavorable rating of 48%, a gap of 10 points….
President Donald Trump made a bold prediction on Saturday morning. He said that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, leader of the House Democrats, would once again be elected as Speaker of the House. According to Trump, Pelosi “deserves” the position of Speaker. The president tweeted: “I can get Nancy Pelosi as many votes as she wants in…
A company owned by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy‘s family was given over $7 million in federal contracts based on bogus claims of Native American ancestry, according to a Los Angeles Times report  published on Sunday. According to the Times, the Small Business Administration accepted a claim from McCarthy’s brother in law that he is…
A desperate House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has told Republicans in Congress that nobody is safe in this year’s midterm elections, and nobody can take their seats for granted. McCarthy has confirmed that GOP leaders are extremely worried about a Blue Wave this year that will take away their congressional majorities. Reports are that…
Daily Kos Elections (DKE) has come out with some new statistics that should have Republicans shaking in their boots.  In fact, it is this kind of information that probably led Paul Ryan to announce his retirement from Congress and as Speaker of the House. At the very least this will buoy Democratic Party optimism that…
“We are wiping the slate clean,” we are told by Paul Ryan, which means the same “screw America” agenda advanced by a new face
There is plenty of blame to go around. No small share of it attaches itself to Boehner, who let the crazies take over the House on his watch
Republicans have a real problem. They can’t find anyone for the job of Speaker. The base hates anyone with any pragmatism, no matter how nuts they seem to the rest of the country. Even their budget king, Paul Ryan, is facing steep criticism as a possible speaker, and he doesn’t even seem to want the job.
Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton wants to put chickenhawk Dick Cheney back into a position of political power.
With the Republicans in the House desperate for a new leader, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has suggested that former vice president Dick Cheney be the next Speaker of the House.
House Republicans are frantically trying to convince Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to run for Speaker of the House, but there is a problem, the same Republicans who sunk John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy may target Ryan next.
A spokesperson for Ryan reiterated that the Congressmen was still not interested in becoming the next Speaker of the House.
After recalcitrant members of the House Freedom Caucus threatened not to back McCarthy, the California Rep. surrendered without a fight.
Only 12 percent of Americans view McCarthy favorably, while 38 percent hold an unfavorable opinion of the California Congressman.
The two leading candidates for House speaker are mirror images and both will dutifully follow the Ted Cruz shut-down-the-government agenda
Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz plans to challenge Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to become the next Speaker of the House.
Boehner lists his dubious accomplishments, but forgets all those failed Obamacare votes and Benghazi investigations and lies about the rest
This is really about opposition to Obama, and in violation of the Constitution, forcing him into the role of a compliant puppet of Congress
On Sunday’s 60 Minutes program, Americans got a glimpse of incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner, and it was not a pretty sight. The Ohio Republican broke down in a fit of blubbering, snot-nosed weep fest. It was disingenuous at best, for behind Boehner’s tears is a right wing agenda to give to the rich at the expense of women, children, and the middle class.