NEW SPEAKER: Mike Johnson WINS House Vote for Speakership

The House elected Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to bethe 56th Speaker on Wednesday, capping off a chaoticthree weeks that paralyzed the lower chamber in a stunning fashion.

In finally coalescing around a new leader, HouseRepublicans hope that Johnson can steer themaround a series of legislative and political landmines inthe weeks and months to come - an objective that is.poised to be a heavy lift in the fractured GOP conference.

Johnson, who was in his second term as vicechairman of the House Republican Conference, wonthe Speaker's gavel in a 220-209 vote over MinorityLeader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), officially cementinghimself as successor to former Speaker Kevin
McCarthy (R-Calif.) following McCarthy'sunprecedented removal earlier this month.