The speaker will soon appoint a chairman for the Rules Committee. That will be one of his first, most important moves in the new Congress.

Under the new rules package, which cleared the lower chamber in a near-party-line vote, 215-209, a motion to vacate the chair will require a minimum of nine members of the speaker’s same party backing the effort in order to receive a vote.

House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (Louisiana) is seeking to shore up support among fellow Republicans for reelection to his post as the new Congress convenes Friday at noon Eastern time. In his bid to keep the gavel,

Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to make it a lot harder for his colleagues to get rid of him. House Republicans unveiled a new set of rules Wednesday that ... about merging Canada with the United States because ‘we don’t want Trudeau ...

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are holding their fire despite Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) bucking their preferred strategy for passing President-elect Trump’s agenda, arguing

Republican Mike Johnson got to keep his job as House speaker thanks to two representatives who changed their votes after originally voting against him. One of those men was Congressman Ralph Norman, South Carolina’s 5th district representative.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the only Republican to vote against Johnson in the end, after Reps. Keith Self, R-Texas and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., initially voted for someone else but then switched their support to the Republican leader.

Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump.

Chip Roy, a Texas Republican and leader of the hardline group, as the chair of the powerful House Rules Committee ... and move the United States to a more sustainable fiscal trajectory." Johnson’s quest was aided by Donald Trump. The president elect ...

Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday won re-election to the top post in the House, salvaging his job in a dramatic last-minute turnabout by putting down a revolt from conservatives. He won with just enough votes to clinch the gavel, 218 to 215, but the vote reflected the steep challenge he faces in governing a slim and fractious majority. Read more ›

House Speaker Mike Johnson clearly hopes to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessor, but the intraparty threats haven’t gone away.