House Speaker Mike Johnson is ready to invite embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, and is tired of waiting for Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer to join in on his invitation. Source link
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene remembered the explosion of noise on the House floor days after she forced a vote to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, noting that the boos were “deafening.” Ms. Greene, Georgia Republican, pulled the trigger on her motion to vacate the chair on Wednesday after weeks of speculation. The move ultimately failed […]
National Democrats are deep into the planning for the convention in Chicago to be held in August. Biden’s planning team is looking wistfully at the 2020 COVID convention when most events were virtual and the chances for disruption were greatly reduced. They are looking for ways to duplicate some of those events, like the […]
WASHINGTON — It was Donald Trump who bestowed the “MAGA Mike Johnson” nickname on the House speaker the day he won the gavel. It is the Republican speaker himself who is proving whether it sticks. Johnson survived an ouster vote this week by one of Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he just wants to move on from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “unfortunate” motion to oust him. “I don’t hold grudges. I’ve got to work with everybody. I told her last night before she left the floor, ‘Let’s move on, Marjorie. I’m OK with this. Let’s move on,’” Mr. Johnson said […]
Former President Donald Trump praised Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia while urging her and other House Republicans to hold off on removing Speaker Mike Johnson for the time being. On Wednesday, Greene’s motion to oust the speaker failed in a landslide vote of 359-43, with just 11 Republicans supporting the plan. A whopping 163 […]
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can breathe a little easier now that more than 80% of his House colleagues put an end to the latest drama gripping Capitol Hill. Six months after ascending to the speakership, a bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly voted to table a motion to vacate the chair—the House’s terminology for […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she never promised further votes to oust Speaker Mike Johnson from his leadership post if lawmakers tabled her motion to vacate the chair. Ms. Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, standing next to Rep. Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican, told reporters this when asked whether she planned additional motions to vacate the chair […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries rallied his caucus to save House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday, or to at least prevent Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from getting a victory. But the New York Democrat would not guarantee that his party would save the speaker if Ms. Greene, or someone else, tried to force another vote […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was booed on the House floor Wednesday afternoon after she tried to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson. Greene first vowed to force a motion to force Johnson from power in March, citing deals the speaker had cut with Democrats to fund foreign wars and governments. Each […]
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