Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), the establishment career politician who represents the eastern part of the state, has already lost the support of the Republican Party of Idaho and now there are growing calls for a credible challenger to step up and run against him.
Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is granting clemency and amnesty to the 25 intransigent House Republicans who violated the formal will of the House GOP conference when they took to the House floor to block a Speakership bid from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) earlier this year.
Mike Johnson is scheduled to huddle again with Mitch McConnell as conservatives grow increasingly worried about McConnell’s influence.
Fifty-four House lawmakers, Democrat and Republican, conservative and progressive, called on Speaker Mike Johnson not to extend a controversial deep state surveillance law in a defense bill.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) office has refused to confirm Rep. Matt Gaetz’s claim that there will be no reauthorization, temporary or otherwise, of a deep state surveillance tool.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) floated a proposal Monday that would include aid to Ukraine and border security reform, while Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hopes to have a vote on a bill tying Ukraine and the border to aid for Israel as soon as next week.
The GOP’s demand for enforcement of U.S. border law is a “partisan” threat to worldwide democracy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a letter to the Senate.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is considering putting a measure to reauthorize a controversial government surveillance law into a defense spending bill, which could stoke division amongst Republicans and block strong bipartisan efforts to rein in surveillance overreach.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is even more dangerous than Osama bin Laden, according to a recent Salon article.
MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Wednesday on “The ReidOut” that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was a “Christian nationalist and anti-abortion zealot.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has nearly a 3 to 1 disapproval in his home state of Florida, according to a survey from the Florida Atlantic University Mainstreet PolCom Lab.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday announced the latest fundraising effort for House Republicans — the “Grow the Majority” fundraising committee, which Johnson will use as what has been described as his “chief fundraising vehicle” to support House Republicans moving forward.
Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) might have the “same problem” as Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who is facing a resolution to be expelled from Congress after the evidence uncovered in the Ethics Committee’s investigation.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released security footage from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot to the public on Friday.
The Senate passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s short-term spending plan late Wednesday night, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk.
Matt Rosendale was silent after Speaker Johnson used Democrats to pass a stop-gap spending bill, which is the same thing he ousted McCarthy over.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) addressed the “March for Israel” rally at the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Tuesday in which he voiced opposition to calls for a ceasefire between the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and Hamas terrorists.
The House Freedom Caucus opposes a stop-gap spending bill that does not contain any border security or spending cuts.
Tuesday, during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reiterated his support for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
The House voted 209-201 Monday night to sideline a resolution introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his disastrous mishandling of the border.
The House is under new management but is operating under business as usual as it prepares to pass a continuing resolution (CR) that once again extends spending levels and policies pushed through by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in last December’s lame duck session.
Moody’s Investors Service lowered the United States outlook from stable to negative on Friday, citing polarization and deficit spending.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Friday announced the release of his documentary on the contentious House speakership battle.
House GOP legislators will use their clout in the year-end funding fights to end the Democrats’ secession from the nation’s immigration laws, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told the New York Post.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and dozens of lawmakers assembled on the steps of the Capitol Tuesday for a bipartisan candlelight vigil marking the one month anniversary of Hamas terrorists attacking Israel.
New polls show that immigration is now the top issue for Republican voters and that a clear majority of swing state voters support a border wall.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins discusses his friendship with newly appointed House Speaker Mike Johnson and why Johnson’s Christian faith will be key in his effective leadership.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is promising to push the House’s H.R. 2 immigration stabilization bill to protect Americans’ right to a secure border, amid open-borders advocacy at the White House and the Senate.
Speaker Mike Johnson raised eyebrows after U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink announced that she met with him to discuss Ukraine aid.
Today’s Republicans, as well as Christian nationalism, are a greater threat to the United States than the Hamas terrorist organization, which is responsible for scores of terror attacks including the most recent massacre of over 1,000 civilians — according to a recent Salon piece that is drawing fierce backlash for the “gross” assertion.
American public support for the Biden administration’s “as long as it takes” policy on aiding Ukraine is collapsing, according to a poll.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Tuesday on the Center for Politics podcast “Politics Is Everything” that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was “dangerous” because he went along with former President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud in 2020.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday floated a stop-gap spending bill to Senate Republicans to avoid pushing through an omnibus spending bill.
Speaker Mike Johnson told Senate Republicans that he would back a package providing aid to Ukraine as long as it was not tied to Israel aid.
Ken Buck will not run for reelection, another retirement announcement from a Republican who opposed GOP Speaker nominee Jim Jordan.
President Joe Biden would veto the House Republicans’ aid proposal for Israel that would be paid for with IRS cuts, his administration said.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) credited Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) “real leadership” for his efforts to decouple aid to Israel and Ukraine.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) decision to split Israel and Ukraine aid puts him at odds with President Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell.
During an appearance on this week’s “Sunday Morning Futures” on the Fox News Channel, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) acknowledged House Republicans under his leadership were still committed to pursuing potential wrongdoing by President Joe Biden and his family.
Newly-installed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) delivered his first major public address as Speaker to the Republican Jewish Coalition annual summit Saturday night, declaring: “We are going to stand like a rock with our friend, and ally, Israel.
