In positioning himself as a junior partner to the president and doing his bidding on matters large and small, the Louisiana ...

Update, Jan. 3, 2025: Last spring, House Speaker Mike Johnson ... children of their own starting in 2001, and Johnson has noted that his Black son, Michael, who now has his own family, had it ...

Johnson faced an uphill battle in maintaining the speaker's gavel and eked out a win after initially coming up short.

Republican Mike Johnson ... minority — the House first needed to elect its speaker, a role required by the Constitution, second in the line of succession to the president. Newly elected House ...

Republican House Speaker nominee Mike Johnson faces an uphill battle as GOP divisions threaten to derail his bid for the Speakership.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the 119th Congress is sworn in Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson will fight for his political life — again.