Members-elect of the 118th Congress leave the House Chamber after three ballots failed to elect a new Speaker of the House on January 3, 2023. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images 2023-01-04T15:31:08Z ...

In a Dec. 19, 2024 X post (), U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, claimed the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives doesn't need to be a member of Congress and floated the idea ...

The US House of Representatives supported Mike Johnson's candidacy for Speaker, The New York Times reports. As The New York Times reports, Johnson secured 218 votes from congressmen to become ...

The House of Representatives has now gone two weeks without a speaker. House Republican Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was nominated, but he failed to win the gavel in a ...

The House of the Representatives of the very first Congress, begun in 1789, did not achieve a quorum until nearly a month after the government opened, because of bad travel conditions, among other ...

Every Speaker of the House so far has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, but the Constitution doesn’t explicitly state being an elected official as a requirement.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday was set for its second vote on a new speaker, a day after hardline Republican Jim Jordan failed in his first bid for the gavel.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted, meaning Republicans will choose a replacement. ... On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives voted 216-210 to oust Mr McCarthy, ...

The conservative revolt that brought down the Republican leader of the House of Representatives has left the lower chamber of the US Congress in a state of paralysis. With the government due to ...

After winning a slim majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in November's midterm elections, Republicans are trying to elect a speaker.

For four consecutive days, as Congress plods through its most protracted election for House speaker since 1859, the House of Representatives has existed more as a theoretical concept — an ...

The conservative revolt that brought down the Republican leader of the House of Representatives has left the lower chamber of the US Congress in a state of paralysis. With the government due to ...