After two last-minute vote changes by G.O.P. holdouts, Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana secured a majority of votes in the first round of voting for his re-election bid. Needed to win ...

Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror The first bedrock rule of legislative procedure violated by the budget guardrails is the majority vote rule. It mandates that the normal or default standard for ...

Republicans won a majority in the House during November ... Ky.) pledging not to vote for Johnson, just one additional “no” vote could leave the House without a speaker and force the chamber ...

He argues that Democrat leaders' insistence on 68 votes as the magic, quorum-forming number doesn’t make sense given the current circumstances. Sixty-seven will constitute a majority when the ...