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FEC disclosures show 18 members of Congress started the year with combined debts totaling nearly $6 million from last year's election.

Two members of the United States Congress are speaking out about Power Slap and asking Warner Brothers and TBS for answers about its airing.

WASHINGTON — They call themselves “pragmatic conservatives.”

Calling themselves “pragmatic conservatives,” the 70-member Republican Main Street Caucus hopes to influence policy coming out of the House.

Three weeks into the new era of the House Republican majority, the risks of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership style are clearly taking hold

Ultraconservatives in the House have dominated the public discussion on the US debt ceiling, but Speaker Kevin McCarthy can’t afford to ignore GOP centrists if the country is to avoid a catastrophic payments default later this year.

Some House Republicans have raised concerns about legislation backed by their party leadership that seeks to curtail migration at the border.

New York congressman’s résumé is largely fiction and campaign finance questions abide but support is vital for speaker McCarthy

During last week's House fiasco, the media rediscovered "moderate" Republicans. But they're rarer than Bigfoot

WASHINGTON — Two former members of Congress from west Michigan, U.S. Reps. Fred Upton and Justin Amash, were floated this week as alternative candidates for speaker of the U.S. House in the case that California's Kevin McCarthy can't clinch the Republican votes needed for election.

What others see as dysfunction and chaos, many of Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s opponents see as democracy at work