There's suspense as the nation waits to see if Democrats have any official ability to rein in President-elect Donald Trump ...

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers.... A “Speaker of the House” has been an organic part of the Anglo-American legislative process for centuries—at ...

Republican Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president, but it wasn't just Trump who claimed victory in the election ...

A historic drama is playing out in the US House of Representatives after Republican congressman Matt Gaetz's successful attempt to dethrone his party's House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy. It follows a ...

He has democracy’s seal of approval. So he and those feeding his thoughts ... the big change was the return of the Grand Old ...

Republicans were favored to win control of the Senate and flipped seats in West Virginia, Montana and Ohio, while the battle for the House is on a knife-edge.

Trump and the right have misleadingly seized on a moment from a campaign event the Democratic VP nominee held with the ...

where he joined the SEAL team, and operated a small business called Bottle Breacher until he sold it in 2022. He is a member ...

But House Speaker Mike Johnson, drawing closer to Trump ... is in the fight of his political career against Trump-backed Tim ...

Nancy Pelosi is an American Democratic politician and current Speaker of the House of Representatives. Elected to Congress in 1987, she is one of the most senior Democratic Party leaders and the ...

New York is packed with swing districts that will determine which party controls the House of Representatives this fall.

In legislative contexts, references to “the gavel” often symbolise power and authority within Congress, traditionally ...