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Political observers in Alabama will be watching to see if the newly installed Speaker of the U.S. House follows through on threats regarding a bill supporting Israel. Mike Johnson is scheduled to lead the chamber on a funding measure to help Israel in its war against Hamas

Alabama GOP U.S. House member Gary Palmer says he wants to be the next Speaker. UCLA’s Promise Institute assembled a list of candidates who were considered “election deniers” and “election skeptics” before the 2022 midterm election. Palmer was listed as an election skeptic, which was defined by the New York Times as someone who criticized the election, casting doubt on the outcome, but did not wholly express claims of a stolen or rigged 2020 election.

A GOP member of Alabama’s Congressional delegation is throwing his support behind Jim Jordan for House Speaker, but will it be enough?

None of the Republican members of Alabama’s U.S. House delegation jumped ship during today’s historic ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. A preliminary head count by CNN and the Los Angeles Times listed GOP House members Matt Gaetz of Florida, Andy Biggs and Eli Crane of Arizona, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Bob Good of Virginia, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Ken Buck of Colorado, and Nancy Mace of South Carolina as having voted with Democrats to remove the embattled Speaker.

When Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested recently he might stop the FBI from relocating its downtown headquarters to a new facility planned for the Washington suburbs, it was more than idle thinking about an office renovation. "This idea that we're going to build a new, big Pentagon and put all the FBI mainly in one place, I don't think it's a good structure," McCarthy said Friday, panning a conservative-led proposal to relocate the FBI to Alabama.

The late U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neil is famous for having said “all politics is local.” Along those lines, the late writer Kathryn Tucker Windham also…