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.

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

Mike Johnson was able to keep his spot atop the US House Friday while seeming to offer minimal binding concessions to hard-right Republicans who had threatened his path to re-election.

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.

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 Bill 121 ranks among the most extreme bathroom bans in the US, targeting adult trans people in public buildings.

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

Ever since Republicans took back control of the U.S. House in 2022, their biggest concern has been the unruly hard-right members of the House Freedom Caucus, who have exploited narrow margins of control to keep pressure on their colleagues to obey their wishes.