WASHINGTON — Boosted by President-elect Donald Trump, Rep. Mike Johnson on Friday narrowly won his first full two-year term as speaker of the House, beating back a tiny right-wing rebellion that ultimately caved. Johnson, a Louisiana Republican and self-described “MAGA […]
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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to avoid the same fate that his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, experienced two years ago: an embarrassing, drawn-out floor fight for the speaker’s gavel. A small band of right-wing rabble-rousers is threatening to
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In the first days of the 118th Congress, amid a grueling 15 rounds of voting — the longest speaker floor fight since before the Civil War — Kevin McCarthy began privately expressing doubts to his staff that he would be
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WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House on Friday evening passed a short-term bill to avert a government shutdown, just hours ahead of a deadline that would force U.S. troops, border patrol agents, air traffic controllers and millions of other federal workers
WASHINGTON — The House rejected a bill Thursday to keep the government funded temporarily, after Republican leaders reneged on an earlier bipartisan deal and made modifications to appease President-elect Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk and an internal GOP revolt. The
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WASHINGTON — Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly on Tuesday defeated New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in the race to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, as rank-and-file lawmakers favored a more senior member of the party’s caucus
WASHINGTON — The FBI has held classified briefings warning a handful of U.S. lawmakers that the Chinese Communist Party is working to create fake stories to portray them in a negative light because of their hawkish views of Beijing and
WASHINGTON — A massive defense policy bill that cleared the House on Wednesday includes a ban on gender-affirming care for children of servicemembers — a provision that sparked opposition from the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee and
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has begun informing House colleagues that she is running to be the top Democrat on the influential Oversight Committee, according to three Democratic lawmakers who told NBC News they had had conversations with her.
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WASHINGTON — House lawmakers are expected to vote Thursday whether to compel the Ethics Committee to release its report on an exhaustive, yearslong investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. In the afternoon, the bipartisan Ethics panel is planning to
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