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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during an election night watch party Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Shreveport, La. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

What to know about the House push to expand some Social Security benefits

The House is expected to try next week to pass a Social Security-related bill to ensure benefits for workers who are also eligible for other pensions.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a campaign event at the Lucas County Republican Party headquarters in Holland, Ohio, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House Speaker Johnson says GOP may try to repeal CHIPS Act, then walks it back

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., second from left, joined by Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, left, and Ohio state Rep. Derek Merrin, right, takes a selfie to send to Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump as he speaks during a campaign event at the Lucas County Republican Party headquarters in Holland, Ohio, Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Speaker Mike Johnson is pulling closer to Trump to save the GOP’s House majority

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., delivers an economic address to financial and business leaders, at the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Speaker Johnson lays out agenda for Republicans as they fight to hold House majority

A U.S. Capitol Police officer stands watch as lawmakers leave the House of Representatives after voting on an interim spending bill to avoid a government shutdown next week, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

After a chaotic Congress, lawmakers head home to ask voters: How about another term?

Harris slams House speaker for suggesting GOP would probably try to cut federal semiconductor aid

Kamala Harris on Saturday criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson for suggesting that Republicans would probably try to cut government subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing.

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AP Race Call: Republican Mike Johnson wins reelection to U.S. House in Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District

Republican Rep. Mike Johnson won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Louisiana on Tuesday. Johnson currently serves as the Speaker of the House.

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In this image provided by the Office of the Ukrainian Presidency, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, is watched by Rich Hansen, the commander's representative for the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, while signing military ordnance in Scranton, Pa., Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Office of the Ukrainian Presidency via AP)

Speaker Johnson demands Zelenskyy remove Ukraine’s ambassador to US after Pennsylvania visit

House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fire his country’s ambassador to the U.S.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., is followed by reporters as he walks to the House Chamber for a vote on an interim spending bill to avoid a government shutdown next week, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress passes temporary bill to avoid shutdown as lawmakers punt spending decisions to December

Congress has avoided a government shutdown just weeks before the Nov. 5 election. The House and Senate gave swift approval Wednesday to a bill that keeps federal agencies funded through Dec. 20.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., meets with reporters after a closed-door caucus with fellow Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A year ago Kevin McCarthy was booted as House speaker. Mike Johnson is trying to avoid that fate

One year since House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was booted from office after Congress voted to fund the federal government, the new House Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself courting, but so far avoiding, a similar fate.

FILE - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walks to a meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Spending deal averts a possible federal shutdown and funds the government into December

The agreement announced Sunday averts a possible partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins Oct. 1 and pushes final decisions until after the November election.

FILE - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walks to a meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

House rejects temporary funding bill to avoid government shutdown

The House has rejected Speaker Mike Johnson’s bill to temporarily fund the government. The legislation that failed Wednesday would have linked temporary government funding with a mandate that states require proof of citizenship when people register to vote.

FILE - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Speaker Johnson sets House vote on government funding bill after a one-week postponement

House Speaker Mike Johnson will move ahead with a temporary spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, despite the headwinds that prompted him to pull the bill from consideration last week.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., walks to a meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Speaker Johnson postpones vote on a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson has postponed a vote on a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies and programs funded for six months.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters as he arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Speaker Johnson pushes ahead on funding bill with proof of citizenship mandate despite dim prospects

House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing to press ahead with requiring proof of citizenship for new voters as part of a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown.

FILE - The Capitol dome on Capitol Hill is seen through a glass structure in Washington, on April 6, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Hakeem Jeffries rejects GOP spending bill as ‘unserious and unacceptable’

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is rejecting a proposal Speaker Mike Johnson has put forward that links continued government funding for six months with a measure to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

FILE - Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon, July 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

Pentagon chief says a six-month temporary budget bill will have devastating effects on the military

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says passage of a six-month temporary spending bill would have widespread and devastating effects on the department and the military.

FILE - Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Republicans push to link government funding to a citizenship check for new voters

House Speaker Mike Johnson has teed up a vote this week on a bill that would keep the federal government funded for six more months.

House Speaker Mike Johnson talks to attendees of a campaign event for Republican U.S. House candidate Yvette Herrell of New Mexico in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

House Republican unveil bill to avoid shutdown. Senate Democrats say they’re wasting precious time

House Republicans have unveiled legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month.

FILE - Luis Gil, a Republican candidate for Franklin County Commissioner in central Ohio, speaks in favor of a constitutional amendment on fall ballots that would prohibit noncitizen voting at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, on, Oct. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth, File)

Data indicates voting by noncitizens is rare. Republicans are pressing measures to make sure of it

Federal law already allows only U.S. citizens to vote in elections for president and Congress. Yet Republicans are raising concerns about the potential for noncitizens voting in this year’s elections.

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice, Aug. 11, 2023, in Washington. The Justice Department says Garland will not be prosecuted for contempt of Congress after refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden's interview in his classified documents case because his actions "did not constitute a crime." (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Speaker Johnson says House will go to court for Biden audio after Justice Dept. refused to prosecute

Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and other Republican leaders meet with reporters to condemn former President Donald Trump's guilty conviction in a New York court last week, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Johnson also called President Joe Biden the worst president in American history. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Speaker Johnson appoints two Trump allies to a committee that handles classified intelligence

House Speaker Mike Johnson is appointing two far-right Republicans to the powerful House Intelligence Committee.

Rev. Franklin Graham, son of the late Rev. Billy Graham, speaks after unveiling a bronzed sculpture of his father at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand on behalf of his native North Carolina, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Known as America's pastor, Graham died in 2018 at age 99. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The late Rev. Billy Graham is immortalized in a statue unveiled at the US Capitol

A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand on behalf of his native North Carolina.

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks at a press conference across the street from the Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in New York.(AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Speaker Mike Johnson assails Trump’s felony trial in remarkable visit outside courthouse

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is assailing the hush money trial case against Donald Trump as a “sham,” the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court and attack the U.S. justice system.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at a news conference amid threats that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, is threatening to oust Johnson from his leadership post, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Speaker Mike Johnson survived a motion to vacate. Here’s why his job is far from safe

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.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., joined by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after she tried and failed to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans tired of the political chaos, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Failure to oust Speaker ‘MAGA Mike’ Johnson shows strength and weakness of his alliance with Trump

House Speaker Mike Johnson has a survived an attempt by far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove him from office.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., joined by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after she tried and failed to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans tired of the political chaos, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House rejects Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to remove Speaker Mike Johnson from office

Hardline Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has tried and failed to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., pauses during a news conference amid threats that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, is threatening to oust Johnson from his leadership post, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Speaker Johnson search for offramp as vote on his ouster simmers

Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have met for a second day at the Capitol as they try to figure out an off-ramp to her threat for a vote on the motion to remove him from office.

FILE - In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., answers a question during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2020. (Senate Television via AP, File)

Hakeem Jeffries isn’t speaker yet, but the Democrat may be the most powerful person in Congress

Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries might very well be the most powerful person in Congress right now.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., joined by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., says she'll call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Rep. Greene, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, is forcing her colleagues to choose sides after Democratic leaders announced they'd provide the votes to save the Republican speaker's job. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to force a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’ll call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., meets with reporters following a closed-door GOP strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Johnson and other Republicans are calling for an end to the student protests over the Israel-Hamas conflict, even encouraging intervention by the National Guard. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats say they will save Speaker Mike Johnson’s job if Republicans try to oust him

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats will vote to save Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s job should some of his fellow Republican lawmakers seek to remove him from the position, Democratic leaders said Tuesday, likely assuring for now that Johnson will avoid being ousted from office like his predecesso

A local woman rides a bicycle on April 18, 2024, in front of a building destroyed by a Russian airstrike in the frontline town of Orikhiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko, File)

The House passes billions in aid for Ukraine and Israel after months of struggle. Next is the Senate

The U.S. House has finished voting on an aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other US allies and has sent it to the Senate.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after lawmakers pushed a $95 billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies closer to passage, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Seeking ‘the right side of history,’ Speaker Mike Johnson risks his job to deliver aid to Ukraine

Staring down a decision so consequential it could alter the course of history -- but also end his own career -- House Speaker Mike Johnson prayed for guidance.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after lawmakers pushed a $95 billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies closer to passage, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ukraine, Israel aid advances in rare House vote as Democrats help Republicans push it forward

The House has pushed a $95 billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies closer to passage.