Republicans are expected to change House rules and make it more difficult to oust a speaker of the House, just one year after a single GOP lawmaker initiated the first-ever removal of a member ...

The House of Representatives has adopted new rules that would make it harder to trigger a vote to oust a speaker. House lawmakers voted 215-209 along party lines to set the chamber's rules for the ...

Tennessee Republican leaders have repeatedly said they want more decorum and fewer distractions this legislative session.

Both the House and Senate ethics rules have long echoed the statute by also prohibiting personal use for the chambers’ members. However, the House personal use rule has purported to go a step fu ...

The rules package also includes an extension of the House’s subpoena powers from the previous session, and teed up a vote on a dozen Republican bills to be voted on at a later date. The biggest ...

Republicans are expected to change House rules and make it more difficult to oust a speaker of the House, just one year after a single GOP lawmaker initiated the first-ever removal of a member from ...

We think that is not good.” In 2022, Democrats negotiated with then-House Speaker Jason Stephens, a Lawrence County Republican, for several rules concessions. They were able to do that because ...

Rep. Chip Roy’s (R-Texas) bid to be chair of the House Rules Committee is emerging as a key issue for those withholding support for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ahead of Friday afternoon’s ...

NASHVILLE — The Tennessee House adopted rules Thursday lowering the bill-filing limit and setting up harsher punishments that enable the banishment of lawmakers and members of the public deemed out of ...

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a rules package on Friday that will make it far more difficult to remove a speaker, among other provisions. Under the new rules package ...

Even after a vote is triggered, it still requires the support of a majority of the House in order for a speaker to be removed. The release of the rules package, which includes proposed changes to ...

The top House Democrat on the Rules Committee is denouncing Republicans for attempting to restrict the minority party’s ability to oust the speaker in the latest House rules legislation set to ...