Mike Johnson's Fate Uncertain As House Speaker Vote Looms
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The House will meet Friday at noon and has to select a speaker before it can do anything else — including certify Donald Trump's election victory.
WASHINGTON ― When it meets for the first session of a new Congress on Friday, the House of Representatives has to elect a speaker before it can do anything else.
It’s not clear if Republicans are up to the task.
Current House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) projected confidence on Thursday morning that he would be reelected, but allowed that the vote would be close.
“We’ll have a margin of probably two votes tomorrow during that, so can only afford to lose one or two, but I think we’ll get it done,” Johnson said on “Fox & Friends.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has said he won’t support Johnson, and several other Republicans, such as Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), have sharply criticized their speaker while not outright promising to vote against him.
People also poked fun at the House clerk's description of the former Florida lawmaker as "honorable."
The former Florida congressman won reelection but gave up his seat to accept a nomination that never came.
“I was screaming and finally someone came over to me and they said, 'Listen, I know you’re hurt, but you’re alive. You’re alive,'” he recalled from a hospital.
"We're going to sit on the sidelines and eat our popcorn," the Texas Democrat said.
The New York Times reporter said she's "not surprised" with the direction the president-elect is taking.
President Joe Biden has rejected the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel.
The former GOP lawmaker launched "The Matt Gaetz Show" on the right-wing network with an interesting look.
Jessica Tarlov told co-host Jeanine Pirro that she was moving "the goalposts" with her immigration talk.
Authorities and relatives were still piecing together why Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed a rental truck through New Year's revelers in New Orleans.
Osmond was a founding member of a family act known for 1970s teen hits such as “One Bad Apple," "Yo-Yo" and “Down By the Lazy River."
"I'm glad the game is back on for today, but I’m not surprised because the spirit of New Orleans can never be kept down," he said.