WASHINGTON -- Speaker Mike Johnson is beginning the hard fight for his gavel, a weeks-long campaign that starts Wednesday ...

At issue is a procedural tool know as the motion to vacate that Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and other conservatives used to ...

La., is expected to easily win his party's nomination for speaker in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, with a final vote set for January on the House floor.

The agreement would increase the threshold that allowed a single member to trigger a no-confidence vote to remove the speaker.

But the deal, brokered during a meeting hosted by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and involving lawmakers from the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus and the pragmatic Main Street Caucus, would ...

The new agreement raises that threshold to nine. The conservative House Freedom Caucus and governing-focused GOP Main Street ...

To achieve that reality, however, he has work to do. Hardline conservatives — including many in the conservative House ...

Johnson, members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and those in the self-described pragmatic Main Street Caucus were ...