Ryan called the national debt a "white whale" that he could not catch during his tenure as House speaker. As he spoke from the podium in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington ...

Former President Donald Trump lit into New York prosecutors and the criminal hush money case they brought against him during ...

Speaker Johnson faces legislative dilemmas as he fights to hold job among divided GOP Congress arrived back in Washington with a long list of priorities for House Speaker Mike Johnson to ...

Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich stands at the speakers podium as he presides over opening day of the 104th Congress Washington DC, Jan. 4, 1995. Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images ...

Rep. Mike Johnson is an unfamiliar name to most GOP senators, underscoring the turbulent and unexpected ascent on Wednesday by the Louisiana Republican to speaker of the House. President Biden ...

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 ...

making him the first Black speaker in the Virginia House of Delegates' history. Del. Scott approached the podium to cheers and a standing ovation as he took the oath of office and began his term ...

One of these is the Speaker of the House of Representatives, important for this part of Congress as the Republicans regained control of the chamber for 2023. The election has been caused by the ...

The majority of Ohio House Republicans voted to strip Speaker Jason Stephens of control over House GOP campaign funds during ...

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 ...