COLUMBUS, Ohio—When Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens was asked for his thoughts about outgoing Senate President Matt Huffman trying to unseat him as speaker next session, he didn’t hold back.

It was Donald Trump who bestowed the “MAGA Mike Johnson” nickname on the House speaker the day he won the gavel. It is the Republican speaker himself who is proving whether it sticks.

In fact, when current Speaker Mike Johnson received the gavel, he invoked Moses, whose visage gazes down on the House floor in probable disgust from the balcony above. Mr. Johnson would later ...

He, in short, is not a Washington joke — or at least not as much of one as seemed possible when he took the speaker’s gavel almost by accident, the political equivalent of Forrest Gump. House ...

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Washington — House ... vacate the speaker filed last month by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. She laid the groundwork for an eventual vote to strip Johnson of his gavel after he ...

By Carl Hulse Republicans and Democrats voted Wednesday to block a motion that sought to remove the speaker of the House ... far right as he grasped for the gavel. Now they are seeking to ...

A few numbers illustrate Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) precarious hold on the gavel and the dilemma for House Republicans more broadly. The Ukraine aid package that is the latest policy ...

Republicans and Democrats banded together to block a motion by the right-wing Georgia congresswoman to remove the speaker.

There will be a vote to remove Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson this week and ... when all 435 seats are being contested. Control of the gavel should not be decided by wacko Rep.