The US House of Representatives has elected Republican Mike Johnson, a conservative with little leadership experience, as its speaker. The vote comes after a turbulent three weeks that left the ...

Mike Johnson, a loyal ally of Donald Trump, has been elected speaker of the House of Representatives, ending weeks of congressional paralysis and signalling a sharp tack to the right for ...

US president Joe Biden has said that he hopes lawmakers "get their act together" as the deadlock over the House of Representatives speaker continues.

Republican congressman Mike Johnson has been elected as the next Speaker of the US House of Representatives. The conservative politician swept the vote on the first ballot following weeks of ...

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the leader of the House and the second in line to the presidency. The first Speaker of the House was Frederick Muhlenberg, who served ...

United States House of Representatives still without Speaker as Republican Kevin McCarthy fails in sixth ballot. The House of Representatives is still without a Speaker after Kevin McCarthy failed ...

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives has been ousted from his position in a historic vote forced by far-right Republicans he had spent nine months appeasing. Kevin McCarthy, a Republican ...

Nancy Pelosi has resigned from her position as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives after a key Republican victory. The leader of the Democratic party and a close ally of US ...

The House will convene Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, to elect a speaker for the new Congress. The majority of the Republican conference plans to nominate Kevin McCarthy to lead them as they take over ...

WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives was in a state of paralysis on Wednesday, ground to a halt by the ouster of Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy and with no clear sense of who might ...

A speaker must be elected to allow new members of the US House of Representatives to be sworn in and for the body to begin legislating. Eventually, this will happen, even if it takes over 133 ...