Rep. Virginia Foxx was appointed by House Speaker Mike Johnson to lead the House Committee on Rules, making her the only woman leading a committee in the current session of Congress.

Johnson chose Foxx to succeed now-retired Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas). Unlike most other House committees, the Rules gavel is chosen solely at the discretion of the speaker — a recognition of the panel’s key role in managing business on the House floor.

Virginia Foxx, 81, was tapped to serve as the chairwoman of the House Rules Committee, becoming the only woman to lead a House committee in the 119th Congress.

Massie, the lone Republican to vote against Johnson’s speakership bid Jan. 3, revealed in December that he had offered to step down from the panel.

Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th, bills herself as "tougher than a $2 steak" following a fall in the Capitol.She'll need a thick skin following her appointment this week to a powerful

The Republican’s predecessor had stocked the influential Rules Committee with conservatives. It looks different now.

North Carolina’s Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, NC-05, has been tapped by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Lousiana, to chair the powerful US House Committee on Rules. She was ratified by the conferen

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has been removed from the House Rules Committee after being the lone vote against Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) reelection. Why it matters: Massie's departure from the influential panel could make it easier for Johnson to get legislation to the House floor.

Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie was removed from the House Rules Committee after he opposed the re-election of House Speaker Mike Johnson.

North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx's appointment signals that Trump and Republicans in Congress will push the most radical versions of their agenda.

The Republican-run U.S. House of Representatives on Friday re-elected Mike Johnson as its speaker on ... s Business Daily and for newspapers in Virginia. Back To Top