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After 22 days of paralysis, the U.S. House of Representatives has finally elected a speaker to fill the vacuum left by ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). On Oct. 3, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), joined by seven other Republicans, voted with all House Democrats to remove Mr. McCarthy from the position he had tenuously held since January. But no clear replacement for Mr. McCarthy was immediately evident, leading Republicans to nominate four people for the job before finally finding one who could garner enough support. That candidate, newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), is relatively unknown in the politics of...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday evening that President Biden is showing obvious signs of cognitive decline — hours after meeting the commander-in-chief for the first time as leader of the lower chamber of Congress. “Do you see in Joe Biden a cognitive decline, and if so, is that a danger to the country?” Fox News host Sean Hannity asked the newly installed House speaker. “I do. I think most of us do,” Johnson said. “This is not a personal slight to him. It has to do with age and acumen, and everyone’s different. Everyone ages differently.”

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has let his thoughts on the new Speaker of the House be known. “Donald Trump has his guy,” Scarborough, a frequent critic of Trump and former House member said in a clip posted Friday. “He has the anti-democracy guy sitting in the Speaker’s chair.” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected to the position Wednesday after weeks of turmoil in a Speaker-less House. Johnson was the architect of his conference’s legal strategy challenging current President Biden’s win in the 2020 election.

After Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected Speaker of the House on Wednesday, Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries presented him with the gavel but not before taking a few shots at Johnson first. ... For years, Jeffries has accused Donald Trump of stealing the 2016 election and being an illegitimate president. “With [the] legitimacy of Trump’s presidential election in doubt, his lifetime appt to Supreme Court can wait,” Jeffries tweeted in March 2017 in reference to the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Nearly a year later, he claimed without evidence that “The more we learn about [the] 2016...

So Speaker Johnson is NOW 3rd inline to be POTUS, after listening to him on Hannity last night I think he was put there for a reason.He came out of nowhere.

WELCOME BACK. 0:04 I THINK WE ARE GOING TO JUMP 0:06 BACK NOW TO THE HOUSE WHERE OUR 0:08 NEW HOUSE SPEAKER IS SPEAKING. 0:23 >> I WANT TO EXPRESS MY GREAT 0:26 THINGS FOR OUR SPEAKER, KEVIN 0:28 CLARK -- KEVIN McCARTHY. [ 0:37 APPLAUSE ] KEVIN HAS DEDICATED 0:42 OVER TWO DECADES OF HIS LIFE TO 0:44 SELFLESS PUBLIC SERVICE, 16 OF 0:46 THOSE YEARS IN THIS HOUSE AND 0:49 YOU WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED TO 0:50 FIND ANYBODY WHO LOVES THIS 0:54 INSTITUTION MORE OR HAS 0:55 CONTRIBUTED MORE TO IT. 0:57 HE IS THE REASON WE ARE...

Newly-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is already about to trigger much wailing and gnashing of teeth from progressives in Congress. The lawmaker is wasting no time in setting the legislative agenda for the lower chamber, but his first move is likely to send the anti-Israel faction of Congress into a tizzy.On Wednesday, after taking the gavel, Johnson vowed to bring forth a bill supporting Israel while also condemning Hamas for starting the current war in the Middle East. After assuring the American public that House Republicans are “ready to get to work again” to solve the problems facing the...

This is deep weeds inside baseball, but boy howdy does it tell a story. Representative Matt Gaetz (MAGA, FL) goes through the details of yesterday’s House republican conference assembly as they select a Speaker nominee. What Gaetz reveals in detail is how Kevin McCarthy has been working the conference to undermine any other Speaker candidate so that McCarthy would be renominated as the only possible alternative. The insight and details are really interesting. This is a must watch.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Smoke rose from the Capitol building early this afternoon, indicating that Congress had resumed shoveling taxpayer dollars into a giant bonfire. "They're back at it," said local resident Milton Dennings, watching the cloud of smoke rise. "Well. All good things must come to an end." After three weeks of Congress being hamstrung by having no Speaker of the House, the glowing embers of the last trillion dollars set on fire had at last begun to fade. "So, if we can't light money on fire, what exactly are we doing here?" asked Representative Tom Emmer, twiddling his thumbs....

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) the Republican Conference Chair, delivered a blistering nomination speech endorsing Mike Johnson for US House Speaker before the vote this morning. Elise Stefanik: We convene this esteemed body today at a time of great crisis across America, a time of unprecedented challenges in this hallowed chamber, and a time when our most precious ally, Israel’s very existence, is under attack from forces of evil. Yesterday, our dear colleague, our former conference chair, our Chair of Energy and Commerce, kathy McMorris Rogers, nominated Mike Johnson in our conference, and she put it best, and I want to...

The House is scheduled to convene at noon Eastern time.

Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana emerged as the leading candidate with 85 votes after a closed-door evening vote, lawmakers said, though it was not clear whether he would be able to overcome divisions that tripped up Emmer and two other candidates who had previously won the party's nomination.

The sad truth is that some people in our party are stupid. Statistically, that is inevitable since the parties are about evenly split. When you have 50% of the population, you’re going to have a certain percentage of the idiots. Well, the Republican Party is undoubtedly statistically within the band of normal, because we sure have our share of nitwits. And I’m tired of them. SNIP>>>>> The reality is that we somehow managed to get a Speaker last January and that Speaker was imperfect. Kevin McCarthy was not the guy I wanted for the job in the abstract. He was...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans chose Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest nominee for House speaker late Tuesday, hours after an earlier pick, Rep. Tom Emmer, abruptly withdrew in the face of opposition from Donald Trump and hardline GOP lawmakers. Johnson of Louisiana, a lower-ranked member of the House GOP leadership team, becomes the fourth Republican nominee after Emmer and the others fell short in what has become an almost absurd cycle of political infighting since Kevin McCarthy's ouster as GOP factions jockey for power. Refusing to unify, far-right members won’t accept a more traditional speaker and moderate conservatives don’t want...

Their third speaker pick in three weeks lasted barely four hours. Now, with their desperation on full display, Republicans are trying again. The House GOP is convening Tuesday night for its fourth internal huddle of the day as it hears from yet another unwieldy field of candidates to lead its broken ranks. No one has demonstrated the ability to do what the three previous failed speaker hopefuls couldn’t: unite enough Republicans to land 217 votes on the floor. Two members of tonight’s five-man field have already run and lost. That includes Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), the second highest vote-getter earlier...

The House GOP on Tuesday voted for Tom Emmer to be their next speaker nominee after the conference failed to rally behind previous candidates Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan. Emmer (R-MN), after having been nominated by House Republicans as the nominee for Speaker, has dropped out of the race. The development comes only hours after he was first nominated on Tuesday. Now, House Republicans are going back to the drawing board to come up with a new candidate. In the quest for the almighty 217 votes needed to secure the speaker's gavel, the conference has been trying to lock down...

Amid the impasse, McCarthy is floating a plan that would reinstall him as speaker and make Jordan, a conservative Trump ally, the assistant speaker, according to three sources familiar with McCarthy’s pitch. Asked why the idea — which lacks key details, like how it would be enacted and whether it could even gain enough traction to happen — was being floated now, a GOP lawmaker replied: “We’re desperate.” While the idea might seem far-fetched and it has not been pitched broadly within the GOP Conference, it is being discussed among some Republicans after Emmer, the third GOP nominee, dropped his...

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) dropped out of the Speaker’s race on Tuesday, just hours after the conference nominated the Minnesota Republican for the top job, according to a source familiar. Emmer withdrew his name from the running after a contingent of Republicans made clear they would not back him on the House floor, making it virtually impossible for him to secure enough votes to win the gavel.

Rep. Byron Donalds said he would 'absolutely' release the security footage ... A House Republican who is seeking the House speaker position said he would release all the Jan. 6 Capitol breach security footage, coming months after a batch of tapes were released to Fox News. "I will, absolutely," Mr. Donalds said when he was asked by Fox News co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy if he would release the entirety of the Jan. 6, 2021, footage. The Epoch Times contacted his office for more information. Republicans have raised concerns about the Department of Justice's treatment of individuals who were arrested over Jan....

On Friday, popular conservative Rep. Jim Jordan failed to secure enough support to become the Speaker Designate after RINOS stabbed him in the back.Jordan, arguably the most popular Republican in Congress today, failed to reach the threshold after 23 RINOs voted against him and their conservative voter base.(snip)Republicans in the House will meet this morning to vote for their next Speaker in a closed door session.According to CNN the vote will take place behind closed doors in a secret ballot.