Jon Patterson, who faced state Rep. Justin Sparks of Wildwood in the race, easily won the speakership on a 152-10 vote.

The new House speaker outlines his priorities, focusing on foster children, public safety, youth mental health, and ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson often says he sees himself as the quarterback and President-elect Donald Trump as the coach ...

Even Republicans, who have used President Carter to attack Democrats for nearly 50 years, have had to reckon with revisionism ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina House elected a new speaker for the first time in 10 years on Wednesday, choosing a young ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson clearly hopes to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessor, but the intraparty threats haven't ...

Republican Mike Johnson won the barest of victories on Friday, Jan. 3, when 218 U.S. House representatives voted to re-up his ...

House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.) has taken the famously confrontational group in a slightly more agreeable ...

As they seek to smooth over past factional fights in the state Senate, Republicans face a new round of infighting in the ...

A new Illinois General Assembly was sworn in and legislators now face several tough issues including how to plug a projected ...