Mike Johnson, has emerged as a significant figure in American politics, serving as the 56th Speaker of the United States ...

The Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives announced new measures Friday targeting Democrats who fled the state to ...

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the leader of the House and the second in line to the presidency. The first Speaker of the House was Frederick Muhlenberg, who served ...

The United States House of Representatives has voted in Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana as speaker. “It is the honor of a lifetime to have been elected the 56th Speaker of the House,” Johnson ...

While no Speaker has ever become President via succession, James K. Polk was elected President of the United States in 1845 and is the only former Speaker of the House to do so.

“After the speaker is elected, the member with the longest continuous service administers the oath to the speaker,” according to the U.S. House of Representatives History, Art & Archives website.

Members of the 118th Congress cannot be sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives without a speaker. They also cannot vote or introduce legislation.

Texas Republicans need a quorum to pass new congressional maps that would send more Republicans to the U.S. House of ...

The House is scheduled to reconvene at noon at Wednesday, with the first order of business being the election of a Speaker. Under federal law, members cannot be sworn in until a Speaker is chosen.

Texas’ Republican attorney general and a GOP Illinois state senator filed a petition in more conservative Adams County rather ...

According to the Revised Statutes of the United States, at the first session of Congress, the body must first swear in a speaker who then administers the oath of office to all members present ...