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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., has dropped out of the race for House speaker. He announced the decision following a closed-door meeting with fellow House Republicans Thursday evening ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) officially filed her motion Monday to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as leader of the House, starting a two-day clock for lawmakers to decide his fate.