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Byline: Marianna Sotomayor Republicans won control of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, according to a projection by the Associated Press, handing the party a sweep and ushering in a [...]

Byline: Patrick Svitek Almost a year ago, eight House Republicans teamed up with Democrats to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in an unprecedented vote. Since then, a political network linked [...]

In a lengthy report released on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, Republicans used circumstantial evidence to accuse the president of corruption tied to his son's foreign business [...]

Byline: Ken Tran, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Conservative firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said on Wednesday she's calling up a vote next week to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) believes there is a simple answer to the question of why House Democrats are more effective at working together than members of his [...]

The new speaker of the House is a Southern Baptist who embodies evangelical beliefs and priorities, with a long history of work against abortion and gay rights. Two days after [...]

Byline: Washington Post Staff The House is voting Wednesday on whether to install Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) as its speaker. Late Tuesday, Johnson became the fourth Republican pick for the [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor, Amy B Wang, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Theodoric Meyer and Jacqueline Alemany Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), a lesser-known conservative who has been a devoted follower of former president [...]

Byline: Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY Multiple Republican lawmakers lashed out at their GOP colleagues on Sunday as the House remains frozen without a speaker, calling the situation embarrassing. A handful [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake CNN on Thursday aired harrowing audio of the kind of intimidation and threats that an increasing number of Republican lawmakers says they've faced over their opposition to [...]

Byline: Justine McDaniel and Marianna Sotomayor House Republicans continued to receive threats Friday aimed at pressuring them into voting to elect Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as speaker, hours before Jordan [...]

House Republicans, meeting behind closed doors, voted Friday by secret ballot for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to step aside following a third vote on the House floor in which Jordan [...]

Byline: Justine McDaniel and Marianna Sotomayor House Republicans are continuing to receive threats aimed at pressuring them into voting to elect Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as speaker. Ahead of a [...]

Byline: Paul Kane It was tricky enough for Roman Catholics to have two popes over the last decade, with one reigning and issuing edicts that differed from the retired pontiff's [...]

Byline: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Marianna Sotomayor, Theodoric Meyer and Tobi Raji House Republicans planned to gather behind closed doors Thursday for a conference discussion ahead of a planned House floor [...]

Byline: Washington Post Staff Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) won't pursue a third vote for speaker as the House looks to empower the legislative powers of Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T. [...]

The Republican-led House recessed Wednesday without voting on House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) as speaker. It's unclear how long the recess might last. Scalise narrowly won his party's nomination [...]

House Republicans on Wednesday chose House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) as their party's nominee for speaker. He still must win a majority vote from the full House, including Democrats, [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Mariana Alfaro WASHINGTON - House Republicans gathered late Tuesday in a last-ditch attempt to unify ahead of a vote to elect a new [...]

Byline: Maegan Vazquez and Marianna Sotomayor Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Monday that he is willing to resume serving as House speaker if enough of the Republicans who voted in [...]

Byline: Marcus Clem Oct. 3Democrats and some Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to vacate the office of speaker of the House, removing Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor During House Republicans' annual retreat earlier this year, lawmakers had the option of attending a variety of policy briefings led by their colleagues, including one on leadership's [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor and Leigh Ann Caldwell In one of his first meetings with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after the recent debt ceiling fight, Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) knew [...]

House Republicans used a field hearing blocks from Alvin L. Bragg's office to attack the district attorney and argue that his policies and statements had prompted a crime spree. One [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez MCKINNEY, Tex. - Ben Zeno reveled in the chaos his new congressman helped unleash in Washington this week. Rep.-elect Keith Self (R-Tex.) had [...]

Lawmakers in the House have yet to be sworn in. They can't help constituents or get classified briefings, much less hold hearings or pass laws. And at some point, they [...]

Byline: JM Rieger and Aaron Blake The House of Representatives convened Tuesday to elect its next speaker, and for the first time in 100 years it's taken multiple rounds of [...]

Byline: Eugene Scott WASHINGTON - More than a dozen Republicans have voted against House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in his quest to be the next speaker. Going into the [...]

Byline: JM Rieger and Aaron Blake The House of Representatives convened Tuesday to elect its next speaker, and for the first time in more than 100 years, it's taken multiple [...]

Byline: John Wagner and Marianna Sotomayor WASHINGTON - Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who failed three weeks ago in a vote among House Republicans to lead the conference, is mounting another [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor and Camila DeChalus House Democrats are preparing to elect a new generation of leaders Wednesday who will be responsible for keeping the caucus united on policies and [...]

After a historically bad midterm election for the G.O.P., the top House Republican tried to navigate infighting in his demoralized party. WASHINGTON -- Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips It's been a little more than a year since Congress impeached former president Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 attack. Ten House Republicans voted [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany and Marianna Sotomayor WASHINGTON - House Republicans have decried the public feuding this week among a small group of GOP lawmakers as detrimental to the party's ability [...]

Byline: Alex Rogers and Gabby Orr, CNN (CNN) -- Republican state legislators and party officials in Tennessee are using every conceivable tool to try to throw a House candidate endorsed [...]