Sen. John Thune used his first few minutes of floor time to make a commitment to defend the filibuster rule, which requires ...

Johnson, of Louisiana, has been working diligently to prevent defeat, spending New Year's Day at Mar-a-Lago as he positions ...

Speaker Mike Johnson faces a major challenge in the new Congress: the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years. In a ...

Trump's pick has secured the powerful House Speaker role after surviving a close vote against Democrat Hakeem Jeffries.

The close vote was a bad sign for Trump’s legislative agenda. The success of President-Elect Donald Trump’s legislative ...

The House of Representatives on Friday is voting on electing a speaker for the new Congress. Mike Johnson, a Louisiana ...

A new US Congress has assembled, and the Republicans have a majority in both chambers. But president-elect Donald Trump faces ...

The Louisiana Republican was unanimously nominated as his party’s candidate for speaker. But resistance among right-wing ...