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House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, will not run for reelection. She faced term limits on her committee leadership position.

Republicans had a little trouble counting. Democratic whips explain what went wrong — and how Nancy Pelosi would never have allowed it.

The new House speaker opposes abortion rights and same sex marriages. He's also an ally of former President Donald Trump who refused to certify the 2020 presidential election results.

After much ado, the GOP made their choice – a leading figure in the Republican attempt to overturn the 2020 election – but he faces the same bind as his predecessor

Johnson's win marks the first time the GOP has unanimously elected a speaker since elevating John Boehner in 2011

After the House of Representatives took the unprecedented step on Oct. 3, 2023, of removing its own speaker, Kevin McCarthy of California, with eight Republicans joining all 208 voting Democrats to “vacate the chair,” what followed was weeks of uncertainty. Until conservative Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson was elected speaker of…

Mike Johnson is a hardliner on abortion and LGBT+ rights and led an amicus brief to overturn the 2020 election results in swing states

All Texas Republicans in the U.S. House voted for Louisiana’s Mike Johnson to be speaker, ending a stalemate that has left the chamber leaderless for three weeks. Johnson is a deeply religious conservative who won the support of the party’s disparate factions.

Almost every aspect of current Republican Party politics defies historical precedent and obvious logic. Even in the House of Representatives, where, traditionally, a save-our-jobs mentality has always maintained a relative stability, Congressional Republicans, over the past several weeks, have publicly broken down in comic and operatic ways.