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Kinzinger suggests Johnson make deal on Ukraine to save Speakership

Elaine Hadley

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) suggested that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) should make a deal on aid to Ukraine to ...

Republicans are playing the blame game after losing a House seat vacated by George Santos

Evan Massoud

House Democrats scored a big win Tuesday night after Tom Suozzi won New York’s Third Congressional District special election. He ...

McCarthy and Johnson are both conservative Christians. Only one is on the ‘front lines of the culture war’

Evan Massoud

In the early morning hours of Jan. 6, as Rep. Kevin McCarthy prepared to try for the 12th time to ...

Virginia to see first Black speaker of the house

Evan Massoud

Five years ago, while working on a high-profile case, the trial lawyer Don L Scott Jr received a call from ...

Ousted House Speaker McCarthy blasts his nemesis, says GOP would benefit ‘tremendously’ if Matt Gaetz was out

Evan Massoud

Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy lashed out at the band of House Republicans who voted to oust him ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson greets official Washington in a honeymoon period that’s likely to be brief

Evan Massoud

WASHINGTON — One of the most unassuming and unrecognizable lawmakers in Congress, Rep. Mike Johnson was thrust into the eye ...

House passes Israel aid, clashing with Senate and White House

Abhinav Thawait

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects calls for cease-fire Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls for a cease-fire, calling it a ...

New US House speaker says Ukraine, Israel funding request should be split

Abhinav Thawait

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Newly elected U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said on Thursday that funding to support Ukraine and ...

It took weeks to move Mike Johnson up to Speaker, but no time at all for pundits to take him down

Carol Dennis

The late-night hosts have been having a lot of fun with the struggles in Washington D.C. to select a new ...

GOP presidential candidates embarrassed by party’s speaker saga

Evan Massoud

Republicans’ three-week speaker saga is finally over, with House lawmakers electing Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana as the 56th speaker ...

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