House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., narrowly held onto the gavel in a nail-biter vote on Friday afternoon. Republicans eager to swear in President-elect Trump later this month and capitalize on ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) kept his gavel amid a threat from the right flank of the House GOP, but managing the House GOP is not going to get any easier from here. The dramatic Friday Speaker ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday defied his most conservative critics to retain his gavel in the next Congress, overcoming threats from a group of far-right lawmakers leery of his leadership ...

Speaker Mike Johnson narrowly avoided a painful and prolonged fight to keep his post, but his messy victory showed how difficult his job will be in the new all-Republican Congress. By Catie ...

WASHINGTON − House Speaker Mike Johnson won back his job for another term on Friday after a nail-biter finish and now has the daunting task of trying to unify a fractured but potentially ...

Speaker-designate Mike Johnson, R-La., was re-elected to lead the House of Representatives on Friday. The Louisiana Republican won along party lines during the first round of voting, a stark ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won reelection Friday as House speaker on a first ballot, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts in a tense standoff and buoyed by a nod of support ...

WASHINGTON – House Republicans gave Mike Johnson the speaker's gavel for two years on Friday – along with a warning. Nine GOP lawmakers at first either abstained from voting for Johnson or ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) barely won reelection as House Speaker in the first ballot cast by representatives to determine who will lead the lower chamber in the next congressional cycle.

Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Keith Self (R-TX), the pair flipped their votes, giving Johnson the 218 he needed to be reelected. Johnson offered assurances to lawmakers to help secure their backing ...

Mike Johnson initially came up short in his bid to remain speaker on the first ballot, but his allies are optimistic they can flip some of the three GOP votes against him in subsequent ballots.