Hours after Rep. Jim Jordan’s failed bid to win the speaker’s gavel on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats are weighing a plan to give Rep. Patrick McHenry the power to serve temporarily as ...

But Rep. Patrick McHenry — the GOP’s bow-tied, gavel-slamming temporary speaker — is just now emerging as America’s latest political obsession, memes and all. And he's on deck to step into ...

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), the bow-tied lawmaker who became nationally famous for angrily banging the speaker’s gavel in ...

So far the most notable thing Mr McHenry has done with the Speaker's gavel in his hand was to slam it down very hard right after Mr McCarthy's ouster - a moment that went viral. Since that hammer ...

Hardline conservatives are plotting to challenge Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for the gavel during Wednesday’s internal House ...

Some have already floated giving Mr McCarthy, who was only narrowly unseated two weeks ago, another chance at the gavel ... the powers of acting Speaker Patrick McHenry, allowing him to preside ...

(TIME reached out to the Harris and Trump campaigns about the claim that Democrats would make Ocasio-Cortez Speaker of the House. Neither immediately responded.) While references to the “gavel ...

A nasty interparty fight could play out similar to the chaotic scenario that unfolded last year when former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had to survive 15 rounds of votes to win the gavel that was ...

FOX 7's Rudy Koski sits down with former governor Rick Perry to talk about the push for the Texas Speaker of the House. Perry says Dade Phelan has the votes to take back the gavel in what is sure ...

Jordan was rejected twice, and Emmer was also denied the gavel, paving the way ... Services Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., who served as the interim speaker between McCarthy and Johnson ...