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Rumors are swirling that Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to have Mike Johnson removed from his position as House Speaker. Anonymous sources allegedly told MS NOW on Thursday, December 11, that the Georgia Republican has been "approaching members to get to nine who will oust the speaker.
The Louisiana Republican has had a rough few weeks as rank-and-file Republicans deploy discharge petitions to go around him and block a key leadership-backed bill on the floor.
One Democratic senator is publicly questioning why Gov. Gretchen Whitmer isn't speaking out at against the House GOP's unilateral program cuts.
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, who is running to become South Carolina's governor, wrote Nancy Pelosi was better than current House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Tuesday called for a special session of the General Assembly to elect a new House speaker after Adrienne Jones stepped down.The special legislative session will be held on Tuesday,
Speaker Adrienne A. Jones is stepping down as Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates. Governor Wes Moore and multiple lawmakers confirmed on Thursday that Speaker Jones submitted her resignation to her colleagues.
LIke at its first hearing, Dec. 4, no testimony was allowed from members of the public, by Committee Chair Mike Redondo, R-Miami. While more than 150 people converged on that hearing, the second round drew only a handful of observers, with Redondo defending his stance against public comments.
Democrat Michael Madigan was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison and reported to a minimum-security federal prison camp in West Virginia earlier this fall. An appeals court denied his request to be released while an appeal is pending.
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Republican House Speaker Hall faces a ‘fiscal cliff' created by his party's reckless tax cuts | Opinion
In his recent op-ed, Speaker Destin Hall frames the current Republican budget standoff in the North Carolina General Assembly as a noble fight to "hold the line" for North Carolina's future. He argues that the House is trying to save the state from a looming fiscal cliff caused by automatic tax cuts.
Gov. Wes Moore is calling a rare special legislative session to confirm the election to replace House Speaker emeritus Adrienne A. Jones.
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Nancy Mace claims Nancy Pelosi 'was a more effective House speaker than any Republican this century'
S.C., praised former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as more effective than any Republican speaker of this century in a New York Times guest essay on Monday.
Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, criticized House GOP leaders in an op-ed for what she called their "restrictive and ineffective" control of the chamber.