The current House speaker, Rep. Dade Phelan, a Beaumont Republican, announced he was exiting the race on Friday, Dec. 6.

Michigan House GOP left session with a demand for votes to change paid sick leave and minimum wage laws. Democrats adjourned ...

The Texas House GOP Caucus voted to endorse Cook on Saturday in a 48-14 vote, but only after some of Burrows's backers had left the meeting. By convention, House Republicans are expected to vote for ...

US Representative Brian Mast (R-FL) has been selected to lead the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. ...

U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, delivered a farewell speech Tuesday afternoon on the Senate floor. Cardin, 81, has been a longtime fixture in Maryland politics, serving in elected office over 58 ...

At the time 50 years ago, the ranks of women were small in the U.S. Congress, the Connecticut legislature and in various ...

The retreat is currently scheduled for January 27 through 29. While not all of the 220 Republicans representatives are ...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally, a ...

The House has passed what was once a bipartisan effort to expand the number of federal district trial court judgeships across ...

The corruption-addled New York City mayor met with Tom Homan on Thursday to discuss the city’s role in Trump’s imminent mass ...

United States citizenship through birth comes via ... When asked about Trump’s comments, then-House Speaker Paul Ryan told Kentucky radio station WVLK that such a move would be ...

“Do you know if somebody sets a foot, just a foot, one foot, you don’t need two, on our land, ‘Congratulations you are now a citizen of the United States ... then-House Speaker Paul Ryan ...