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The House is set to vote around noon as it selects the speaker for the 119th Congress. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walks to his office in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 3, 2025 in ...
With 434 lawmakers in attendance, the threshold for Johnson to be elected Speaker of the House was 218. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the sole no vote. This live blog has ended.
PHOTO: Rep. Mike Johnson leaves the floor after the House failed to elect a Speaker of the House in the first vote on the first day of the 119th Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol, Jan ...
Republicans retained their slim majority in the House of Representatives, despite losing a seat, during the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections. [17] With a two seat larger majority, in the January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, a faction of the Republican majority, mostly represented by the Freedom Caucus, refused to support Republican ...
His confirmation vote is still set for 7 p.m. EST. Meanwhile, Trump and GOP leaders have been huddling at the White House to hammer out details on his budget priorities. But sorting this out may ...
The speaker of the House of Representatives is the House's presiding officer, and the position is explicitly established by the Constitution of the United States. [10] The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially after a general election) or when a speaker dies, resigns, or is removed from the position by a vote held during an active term.
A representative must file the resolution and request a vote; as a privileged resolution, the vote must occur within two legislative days. A vote may be blocked if the resolution is tabled or sent to committee. If passed, an internal list penned by McCarthy would appoint a speaker pro tempore until a new speaker was named. An election would ...
Watch LIVE: Trump holds victory rally in Washington DC ahead of presidential inauguration 20:14 , Oliver O'Connell As he returns to the White House, Trump will begin ‘two year race’ to change ...