Malkangiri police bags award for improving voter turnout in Maoist-hit areas
Bhubaneswar: President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday presented an award to Malkangiri police for its outstanding security ...
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Republican Senator Vows to Vote Against Key Donald Trump Demand
In a Sunday Fox News interview on Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo, host Maria Bartiromo asked Johnson, a Trump ally, if he would vote for the president-elect's plan to eliminate or ...
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Mike Johnson Wins Reelection As House Speaker In Dramatic Vote To Open New Congress
In an attempt to avoid some of the chaos that plagued the Republican majority in the last Congress, Republicans raised the threshold to force a vote on ousting the House speaker to nine GOP members.
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Trump interrupted golf game to convince GOP holdouts to vote for House Speaker Mike Johnson, lawmaker says
President-elect Donald Trump put down his 9 iron and picked up his phone on Friday to convince Republican holdouts to vote for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Trump, 78, was apparently on the ...
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Johnson wins dramatic reelection as speaker after 2 GOP hard-liners switch votes
Three Republicans initially defected from Johnson during the vote, but two ultimately changed their votes to hand him the gavel. President-elect Trump started working the phones following the no ...
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Trump gets Johnson across the finish line but dramatic speaker vote signals challenges ahead
Without a vote to spare, the Louisiana Republican won his bid to retain the gavel and lead a narrowly divided chamber into the new year. While the official record will state he secured the ...
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Mike Johnson wins House speaker reelection after some GOP holdouts change votes
Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson was reelected House speaker Friday on a first vote, overcoming skepticism about his leadership from some in his party. Johnson clinched the post after two ...
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Mike Johnson re-elected speaker: Here were the top three moments of the dramatic vote
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., narrowly held onto the gavel in a nail-biter vote on Friday afternoon. Republicans eager to swear in President-elect Trump later this month and capitalize on ...
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Stacey Plaskett’s moment during the House speakership vote makes waves: ‘I have a voice!’
You may have missed her powerful moment from Friday’s House speakership vote if you’re not a C-SPAN junkie like me, but you ought to see it. The Democrat from the U.S. Virgin Islands made a ...
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House Speaker Vote Updates: Mike Johnson Elected on First Ballot—After Trump Intervenes
Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, and Keith Self of Texas—had initially denied Johnson a majority by voting for someone else. But Norman and Self switched their votes ...
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Johnson Wins House Speaker Vote After Late Talks With Holdouts
The Louisiana Republican initially fell short of the threshold and the vote was kept open as he conferred with lawmakers in a side room just off the House chamber.