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Former Rep. Thomas J. Bliley Jr., who chaired the House Commerce Committee after the Republican wave of 1994, died Thursday at age 91.

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McKay Coppins and his subject do not hold back in a biography with much to say about the collapse of Republican values

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…

Every Republican speaker since the rise of Newt has been an incompetent troll — or a felon. Jordan's no big change

Bipartisan groups of lawmakers have been floating ways to operate the House by giving greater power to the interim speaker, Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, or another temporary speaker

If elected House speaker, Louisiana Republican Steve Scalise would be the first top House leader from the South since Newt Gingrich served as speaker more than 20 years ago.

The status of the speakership has been declining for years. McCarthy's ouster is an extreme example in a sequence of events that have made the speaker more vulnerable — and thus weaker.

Seven Republicans will join the second GOP debate Wednesday but the front-runner, former President Donald Trump won't be one of them. Instead, Trump will head to Michigan to court autoworkers.

By abasing himself to Trump and the most hardline Republicans, Kevin McCarthy made himself a political hostage

Newt Gingrich lost his House seat from Clinton's impeachment, but gained a lucrative career grifting conservatives