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Latest news on the US House of Representatives (also searched as USHOR or U.S.H.O.R), covering the Speaker of the House, the House speakership, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries, the House Majority Leader, House Minority Leader and House Whip, midterm results, committees and legislation, and the fight for control of Congress.

The US House of Representatives has 435 voting members, apportioned by population and elected every two years, so every seat is contested at each midterm and presidential election. The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is elected by the chamber, leads the majority party and is second in the presidential line of succession after the vice president. Revenue bills must start in the House, and the Ways and Means Committee and the Appropriations Committee shape taxes and spending.

In the midterm elections of 3 November 2026, Democrats were projected to win control of the House, ending unified Republican control of Congress during Donald Trump's second term. Republican incumbents lost in states including Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey and Colorado, including in districts Trump carried in 2024. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, is expected to be elected Speaker when the new Congress convenes in January 2027, which would make him the first Black Speaker.

Jeffries, from Brooklyn, rose from a rank-and-file member focused on criminal justice reform to House leader under Nancy Pelosi, and has led House Democrats since 2022. Mike Johnson has led the Republican majority as House Speaker since October 2023. With a majority, Democrats will chair committees, gain subpoena power and pass bills by simple majority, and debate continues over oversight, impeachment and how to balance the party's moderate and progressive wings.

The House has met since 1789, when it had 65 members, and its rules shape outcomes. The Committee on Rules sets the terms of debate, the chamber can sit as a committee of the whole, and the minority can offer a motion to recommit. A discharge petition signed by 218 members can force a floor vote, as it did in 2025 on releasing Epstein files, and a speaker pro tempore presided briefly in 2023 after Kevin McCarthy was removed as Speaker.

The NewsNow US House of Representatives feed brings together the latest headlines on the Speaker of the House, Hakeem Jeffries, Mike Johnson, the House Majority Leader and House Minority Leader, committee hearings, discharge petitions, midterm results and legislation, from reliable sources, so you can follow the House in one place.