Thomas Massie ends as lone GOP opponent to reelecting House Speaker Mike Johnson
Three Republicans have held out on voting for Mike Johnson as speaker of the House. Kentucky's Rep. Thomas Massie, who openly said he'd vote against Johnson over the past few days, voted for Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota.
Kentucky Thomas Massie's vote for Speaker of the House remains unclear. What we know
"You can start cutting off my fingers," Kentucky U.S. Rep Thomas Massie said. "I am not voting for Mike Johnson.”
Rep. Thomas Massie Votes Against Mike Johnson
Rep. Thomas Massie (R, Ky.) has cast the first Republican vote against Mike Johnson. Massie said ahead of the session Friday that he planned to vote against the Louisiana Republican, instead voting for Rep.
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The libertarian-adjacent congressman says he "definitely has no Fs to give now" and promises to vote against Mike Johnson.
'Mike Johnson is not equipped to be speaker.' Thomas Massie on his Friday vote
"Almost all of my colleagues know that Mike Johnson is not equipped to be speaker, but nobody wants to say the emperor has no clothes," Massie said.
Rep. Thomas Massie only GOP holdout in vote for Mike Johnson as House speaker
Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was vocally critical of Mike Johnson ahead of Friday's vote to reelect him House speaker.
Northern Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie lone GOP ‘no’ vote on House Speaker Mike Johnson
Thomas Massie, the congressman representing Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District, was ultimately the only GOP representative to vote against Rep. Mike Johnson for speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Dramatic speaker vote may be the start, not the end, of House GOP chaos
Mike Johnson won what should be a full term in one ballot, but his Republican antagonists are lying in wait for another ambush.
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Rep. Mike Johnson was re-elected House speaker following a last-minute scramble to secure the 218 votes he needed.
Thomas Massie Says Even Torture Wouldn’t Convince Him to Back Johnson
Rep. Thomas Massie (R., Ky.), the one Republican who has said he would definitely oppose Mike Johnson (R., La.) for speaker, ...
Rep. Barr heads to Mar-a-Lago to huddle with Trump while Rep. Massie stays behind
The meeting with the Kentucky lawmaker comes ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration and will focus on ...
Massie says there’s absolutely no way he’ll vote for Johnson: ‘You can pull all my fingernails out’
“You can pull all my fingernails out, you can shove bamboo up in them, you can start cutting off my finger, I am not voting ...
Thomas Massie Needs Backup to Remove Mike Johnson
Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) has spent much of his dozen years in Congress waging lonely political crusades while working as a ...
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Politicians Won’t Solve Our Spending Problem Unless We Make Them
Mike Johnson promised drastic spending cuts in his House address last Friday. But, as Thomas Massie pointed out, Johnson's ...
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A look at the right-wing lawmakers that could constrain pro-Israel legislation in the new Congress
Rep. Thomas Massie is the most notorious of the GOP’s right-wing rebels, emerging as the only Republican who refused to support House Speaker Mike Johnson in this last week’s leadership election ...
Massie and Boebert lay out tough path for Johnson on Gaetz’s new show
Johnson can't afford more than a single GOP defection in order to be elected speaker, assuming all Democrats are opposed.