The North Carolina House elected a new speaker for the first time in 10 years on Wednesday, choosing a young lieutenant to ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson often says he sees himself as the quarterback and President-elect Donald Trump as the coach ...

Before a standing-room-only crowd at Tarrant County Republican party headquarters, Paxton and George said Cook should become ...

As they seek to smooth over past factional fights in the state Senate, Republicans face a new round of infighting in the ...

In surprising move, former longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has taken the stand at his own corruption trial.

House Speaker Mike Johnson clearly hopes to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessor, but the intraparty threats haven't ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) must persuade a handful of Republican lawmakers frustrated at his leadership to support ...

The 119th Congress will begin on Friday, ushering in a new era of Republican control in Washington that will start with a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan returns to the stand Wednesday . It was surprise and risky decision to testify by a man famously tight-lipped with the media. It may be ...

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JEFFERSON CITY — The new leader of the Missouri House spent part of his first official day cleaning up messes left by his scandal-plagued predecessor. Within hours of being sworn in, House Speaker Jon ...

A Democratic state representative’s health problems could complicate the vote for speaker of the Pennsylvania House of ...