6:40 PM: In South Carolina, Rep. Nancy Mace faces challenger backed by Kevin McCarthy When eight House Republicans voted last year to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the speakership ...

The first order of business for the House this year is to elect a speaker but divisions within the GOP are already causing ...

But while House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday avoided the dayslong ordeal that his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, endured to become speaker ... Ralph Norman, a South Carolina Republican who initially ...

Mike Johnson as speaker of the House, South Carolinians saw a few of their own sworn into ... and praise – a stark contrast ...

Republicans expressed happiness and relief to have elected Speaker Johnson so quickly on Friday, avoiding the lengthy process to elect Speaker McCarthy in the last Congress.

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The same wing of the GOP that ousted Kevin McCarthy is skeptical of Johnson ... Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Keith Self of Texas — initially voted against ...