Marjorie Taylor Greene was left humiliated in Congress on Wednesday as her bid to oust Speaker Mike Johnson spectacularly failed.
Democrats Join Republicans To Block Greene's Bid To Oust Speaker Johnson By Joseph Lord of Epoch Times The House of Representatives on May 8 overwhelmingly voted to block a measure to strip House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of the gavel advanced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) forced a vote on a motion to vacate after meeting with the speaker twice this week to discuss her grievances and demands. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries rallied his caucus to save House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday, or to at least prevent Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from getting a victory.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she never promised further votes to oust Speaker Mike Johnson from his leadership post if lawmakers tabled her motion to vacate the chair.
House Republicans delivered a much-needed, no-holds-barred rejection of
Speaker Mike Johnson complained about “frivolous character assassination” in the House of Representatives after Democrats ensured the gavel remained in his hands Wednesday evening.
In a historic vote, 163 Democrats voted to save Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson from a move to push him out by an ultra-right conservative who believes he capitulated to the left.
To the editor: Are you kidding me? House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Sen. J.D.Vance (R-Ohio), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and others have sat in the Manhattan courtroom this week where Donald Trump is on trial to show their support for the former president. ("Michael Cohen is boring, and that’s trouble for Trump," column, May 14) How ironic that they are in the building where the Central Park Five were wrongly convicted in 1990 but ultimately exonerated of crimes for which then-citizen...
Far-right congresswoman booed on House floor before chamber votes 359-43 to kill proposal to remove Johnson from postThe House easily quashed Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resolution to oust the Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, on Wednesday, as members of both parties came together in a rare moment of bipartisanship to keep the chamber open for business.The vote on the motion to table Greene’s resolution was 359 to 43, as 196 Republicans and 163 Democrats supported killing the...
WASHINGTON >> The U.S. House of Representatives today swiftly defeated an effort by firebrand Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove fellow Republican Speaker Mike Johnson from his leadership role.
Democrats joined a majority of Republicans on Wednesday to save Speaker Mike Johnson from an attempt by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove him from the job. But while Democrats in the minority threw the Louisiana Republican a life raft by voting on his side, they made clear they may not do so again. That means the threat for Johnson still lingers as Greene and other lawmakers can at any time call up another motion to oust him. The episode highlights the increasingly precarious situation...
Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stunned colleagues Wednesday calling for a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, but lawmakers quickly rejected it. Greene pressed ahead with her long-shot effort despite pushback from Republicans at the highest levels tired of the political chaos. One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, Greene stood on the House […]