Photo: House Radio-TV Gallery As the 119th Congress opens at noon Friday, allies of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) expect him to keep the gavel when today's speaker election is said and done.

Speaker Mike Johnson is beginning the hard fight for his gavel, a weeks-long campaign that starts Wednesday during internal House Republican leadership elections and will establish the new power ...

WASHINGTON — On the car ride from Trump Tower to the Manhattan courthouse Tuesday, former President Donald Trump was venting to Speaker Mike Johnson ... as we sit here today.