House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday demanded that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy remove Oksana Markarova from her position as Ambassador. Johnson said a trip she planned for Zelenskyy to ...
Republican Rep Kevin McCarthy of California finally won the election for Speaker of the House of Representatives early Saturday morning, after facing strong resistance from a contingent of ...
Republican Kevin McCarthy has been elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks and floor tensions boiling over after a chaotic week that tested the new GOP majority’s ability to govern. After four days of grueling ballots, McCarthy flipped more than a dozen conservative holdouts to supporters, leaving him just a few shy of seizing the gavel for the new Congress. The last few Republican holdouts voted present, dropping the tally McCarthy needed to win.
After four days of voting, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has been elected as Speaker of the House for the 118th U.S. Congress. McCarthy, who is from California, won over key Republicans in the 15th...
The current effort to determine the speaker of the United States House of Representatives has become the fifth longest speaker vote in American history, even as Republican Kevin McCarthy has started ...
Federal judges ruled on Friday that the state’s Republican-controlled legislature drew the lines of a U.S. House district in a way that diluted votes from black neighborhoods. The legislature redrew...
Republican Kevin McCarthy flipped 14 colleagues to support him in dramatic votes Friday for House speaker. It was a major sign of progress for the embattled leader on the fourth day and the 12th ballot of a grueling standoff in the new 118th Congress.
An incoming Democratic congressman who says he will be the first LGBT immigrant to serve in Congress will be swearing on a comic book instead of the Bible for his swearing-in ceremony
Supreme courts in two states issued divergent rulings on state laws restricting abortion this week as several states have enacted measures in the wake of the U S Supreme Court s overturn of Roe v ...