CHICAGO — Former U.S. House speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from a federal prison 13 months after he began serving a sentence for a bank fraud conviction linked to his effort to buy ...

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is surrounded by press and police on the way to the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. J.

The Constitution mentions the need for a speaker but doesn’t say much more about their duties. But over time, the role of the speaker has grown to be a vast one: They call the House to order ...

Washington and Congress have their own, often impenetrable, languages. So it may be somewhat confusing to assess what it means that the office of the speaker of the House of Representatives is vacant.

To be the next speaker, a person needs a majority of the votes from House members who are present and voting. (See this useful Congressional Research Service (CRS) report for more details.) ...

The House has voted to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker, marking the first time in history that a House speaker has been removed in this way. The final vote was 216-210 in favor of a motion to ...