US Politics

Republicans are back to square one. It's a game of congressional snakes and ladders, where every space on the board is a serpent.

The earliest the House could elect a new speaker is Tuesday.

epublican colleagues vote against Ohio congressman’s continued bid after his third failed attempt to corral support

The hard-line Republican from Ohio has run headlong into opposition from a bloc of mainstream G.O.P. holdouts.

Republican infighting over speakership has left the chamber effectively shut down for more than two weeks

It was not the day of triumph that Jim Jordan had hoped for.

Jordan says he plans another speaker vote later Tuesday

• Representative Jim Jordan, a right-wing Republican hard-liner, lost his first bid to be elected speaker, prolonging a two-week paralysis in the chamber.
• A total of 20 Republicans voted against Mr. Jordan on the first vote for speaker.

 

On Friday, Jordan won the speaker nomination against GOP Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia – who made a surprise last-minute bid – in a 124-81 vote. 

Republican Congressman Steve Scalise has dropped out of the race to become Speaker of the House just a day after his party nominated him.

Unclear if Scalise can get the votes to win gavel

New York lawmakers aim to expel the accused fraudster, who faces new charges under a superseding federal indictment

US prosecutors have filed an array of criminal counts against embattled Rep George Santos, accusing him of running up multiple charges on the credit cards of campaign donors.

The first-of-a-kind dethroning of a US House speaker shows that Americans don’t want to write blank checks for Ukraine

Nancy Pelosi has said she was ordered to leave her office in the US Capitol by the new interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry.

A search is under way for a Speaker of the House of Representatives after Republican Kevin McCarthy was unexpectedly pushed out by right-wingers in his own party.

After a historic vote to remove the speaker, lawmakers departed Washington on Tuesday night with the House of Representatives in chaos and no clear sense of who might lead it.

Speaker unable to make last-minute deal to retain the gavel

Gaetz to file motion this week, McCarthy says ‘bring it on’