WASHINGTON - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., made history Tuesday after a handful of conservative hardliners and Democratic lawmakers ousted him from the top leadership post in the chamber ...

Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., was one of the first candidates who jumped into the speaker's race, immediately announcing his candidacy to reporters after House Republicans dropped Jordan as their nominee.

The repeated failures by House Republicans to elect a new speaker are making the federal government more likely to shut down next month, as the GOP’s weeks-long internal dysfunction threatens to ...

Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., who opposed House Republicans' second speaker-designate, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said "I don't think so" when asked if the absences will pose a problem ...

The House has taken the unprecedented step of removing Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) as speaker. Here are four takeaways from Tuesday’s momentous events: Who wants to be speaker?: It isn’t clear ...

The search for the next House speaker. The latest: Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected speaker Wednesday by the full House on a first vote. See how each House member voted.. Who is Mike Johnson ...

The House on Tuesday voted to remove Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as Speaker, a never-before-seen historic vote that leaves the lower chamber of Congress in chaos. The mutiny, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz ...

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Wednesday that he will run to be the next House Speaker, as potentially one of the few candidates to unite warring factions of his caucus.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, continues to consolidate support for the speakership even after some lawmakers expressed clear opposition to his bid in a Monday night GOP conference ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had to bring in the big gun last week -- President Trump -- to pressure House Republican holdouts into passing one of the largest tax cuts in US history.

Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) on Tuesday became the first Republican to publicly support ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) over the debt ceiling deal he struck with President Biden as conservati… ...

The tool became notorious in 2015 when conservatives threatened to use it against then-Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), but outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) abolished it — and now McCarthy ...