Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif ... securing the gavel on the first ballot. GOP Reps. Ralph Norman (S.C.) and Keith Self (Texas) initially nominated alternatives for the top post but ...

Ralph Norman was on the House floor Jan. 3 when ... or suffer going the way of his predecessor, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. “You do get threatened,” Norman said of withholding ...

But Johnson is also in trouble because many of the key votes ostensibly for him look more like votes for the Republican agenda in spite of him. After the vote, leaders of the House Freedom Caucus, a ...

Mike Johnson was re-elected speaker of the House on Friday after flipping two GOP opponents following an intervention by ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson will hold onto his position as head of the chamber after Republicans cast their votes in his favor. President-elect Donald Trump threw his support behind Johnson.

Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson of Shreveport was re-elected to the top job as speaker of the U.S. House on the first ...

The Republicans barely elected Mike Johnson as speaker of the House. The success of President-Elect Donald Trump’s legislative agenda will depend on whether Republicans can close ranks in Congress.

President-Elect Donald Trump angrily rang up Ralph Norman while he was on the ... days before finally settling on former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Republicans ultimately sided with Johnson despite ...

Thomas Massie (Kentucky), Ralph Norman (South Carolina ... the fourth Republican pick for speaker after congressman Kevin McCarthy’s ouster by the far-right flank of his party.

Keith Self, R-Texas, and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., were initially ... a stark contrast to his predecessor Kevin McCarthy's drawn-out, 15-round battle in 2023. Johnson's re-election victory comes ...

Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Keith Self (R-TX ... Johnson did not acquiesce to the sort of demands made of Kevin McCarthy, who gave conservatives outsize sway to win the speaker’s gavel in 2021.