Norman had just voted against Mike Johnson when Nancy Mace handed him the phone and said that Trump wanted to speak with him.

Republican Mike Johnson got to keep his job as House speaker thanks to two representatives who changed their votes after originally voting against him. One of those men was Congressman Ralph Norman, South Carolina’s 5th district representative.

Republican Mike Johnson won the barest of victories on ... Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Keith Self of Texas — initially voted against him, and seven others ...

WASHINGTON – House Republicans gave Mike Johnson the speaker's gavel on Friday ... convinced the two remaining holdouts – Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Keith Self, R-Texas – that ...

Mike Johnson. It is the third GOP defection from the incumbent speaker. Johnson at risk of falling short on first ballot With Reps. Thomas Massie and Ralph Norman both voting for candidates that are not Johnson, the Louisiana Republican is now at risk of ...

Last week, Musk voiced his support for Robinson, a far-right, Islamaphobic activist who founded the British National Party and has been imprisoned for contempt of court, related to his repeated racially charged libel of a 15-year-old Syrian boy through social media posts.

Even as the GOP takes unified control of the House, Senate and White House on Monday, congressional leaders are facing doubts about just how quickly they will be able to deliver major wins for Donald Trump.

President-elect says he has ordered inauguration and speeches to take place in the Capitol Rotunda ‘as used by Ronald Reagan in 1985’

Some Republicans hope that will encourage California to make changes to how they prepare for wildfires. “This is not politics. We need sound public policy,” Johnson said. Republicans, like South Carolina’s Ralph Norman, blame leaders in the state for a lack of water.

The alliance between Speaker Mike Johnson and President-elect Donald Trump may prove to be the most important relationship in Washington.

Massie, the lone Republican to vote against Johnson’s speakership bid Jan. 3, revealed in December that he had offered to step down from the panel.

The Republican-run U.S. House of Representatives on Friday re-elected Mike Johnson as its speaker on the first ballot after two GOP lawmakers changed their votes, an outcome that eases some ...