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...“He will obviously ramp up his fundraising activity and capability now that he is speaker,” said Mike Lawler, a congressman from New York, referring to Johnson....
...Mike Johnson was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives last October with the unanimous support of House Republicans....
...Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie on Tuesday said he would join Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, another firebrand Republican and Donald Trump ally, in pushing forward a “motion to vacate”...
...US House Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to hold votes on funding for Ukraine and Israel faced a growing threat as members of his Republican party revived a move to remove him from office....
...Greene has threatened to lead a rebellion to oust Johnson over the move, and has been backed by Kentucky member Thomas Massie and Arizona congressman Paul Gosar....
...“Today the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has made available to all members of Congress information concerning a serious national security threat,” congressman Mike Turner of Ohio said...
...“Johnson was not Republicans’ first choice, second, third or even fourth choice,” Mike Quigley, a Democratic congressman from Illinois, said after Johnson’s election on Wednesday....
...“This time yesterday, nobody was thinking of Mike,” the former US president said. “Then we put out the word and now he is the Speaker of the House.”...
...Mike Johnson, a loyal ally of Donald Trump, has been elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, ending weeks of congressional paralysis and signalling a sharp tack to the right for Republicans in the...
...Marjorie Taylor Greene, the hardline Republican congresswoman and close ally of Donald Trump, has launched a bid to oust Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House of Representatives, as chaos gripped the party...
...The House voted 336-95 on Tuesday evening in support of a plan from Republican Speaker Mike Johnson to keep government spending at current levels into 2024....
...Mike Johnson, a little-known Republican congressman from Louisiana and loyal ally of Donald Trump, was ultimately elected with the unanimous support of House Republicans as the new Speaker....
...Louisiana congressman Mike Johnson was selected as the fourth Republican nominee for Speaker of the House in less than a month, after Donald Trump torpedoed Tom Emmer’s bid and compounded the chaos that...
...Mike Pence FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT Pence, 64, was a loyal second-in-command to Trump during his four years in the White House....
...Republicans met behind closed doors again late on Tuesday to select yet another candidate for Speaker: Mike Johnson of Louisiana....
...Mike Rogers, the Republican chair of the House armed services committee who last week opposed Jordan’s candidacy, also said he was changing his mind....
...A spokesperson for the chair of the Conservative Climate Caucus, Utah congressman John Curtis, said he has “had conversations” with Johnson, the new speaker....
...It’s a role Congressman Patrick McHenry relished until recently....
...The news was jointly announced on Sunday by Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, and Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House....
...“Republicans can’t run away from this issue fast enough,” said Mike Noble, founder of the Phoenix-based non-partisan pollster Noble Predictive Insights....
...Campaign clips: the latest election headlines US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson — a fierce defender of Trump whose leadership has been on shaky ground — said the chamber would vote on separate bills...
...House armed services chair Mike Rogers told the FT he would support Scalise. “I think he’s the guy who can unify us and get the votes that we need,” Rogers said....
...On January 8, Republican congressman Mike Gallagher called on the Biden administration to use tariffs if necessary to prevent China gaining “excessive leverage” over the world’s economy....
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