John Boehner, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, speaks at a 20th anniversary reception for the D.C.

The GOP’s tiny majority in the House of Representatives could pose a challenge for Speaker Mike Johnson and test the influence of President-elect Trump.

Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats’ agenda. Now liberals see an opening to stymy Trump.

But Johnson is also in trouble because many of the key votes ostensibly for him look more like votes for the Republican agenda in spite of him. After the vote, leaders of the House Freedom Caucus, a ...

held the gavel for just more than three years, and former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was in the job for four years and nine months. It is not, however, unheard of in the past half century.

A pastor, his eyes closed, preaches his heart out for history. A former president spots an acquaintance, then grins and winks ...

Such promises, however, might be easier said than done. Former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his leadership team also sought to empower their rank-and-file a decade ago, but they backpedaled ...

John Boehner was elected as speaker with 216 votes in 2015, as was Nancy Pelosi in 2021. Maya C. Miller covers Congress and is a Times Fellow, a program for journalists early in their careers.

Valley representatives appeared at President Donald Trump's inauguration, despite limited capacity at the Capitol Rotunda.

In 2014, I referred to John Boehner as the “Speaker in Name Only” because the then-GOP leader struggled to get his own members to follow his directives, leaving him effectively powerless when ...

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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is predicting that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will remain in the top job for six years. The forecast from Gingrich — who wielded the gavel from 1995-99 — comes ...