House Republicans will be defending their razor-thin majority for the second half of President-elect Donald Trump’s second ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told Axios that Republicans are discussing work requirements as part of a potential Medicaid overhaul.

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Rep. Tim Burchett has never voted to increase the U.S. borrowing limit in his life. And that might not change just because ...

House Republicans have a problem. They want to pass a massive agenda for President-elect Trump, preferably in his first 100 ...

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A group of younger lawmakers is pressing to change House rules to allow members who are new parents to vote remotely.

The congressman weighed in on the new Congress, incoming Trump administration, and comments by the president-elect about potential U.S. expansion in other parts of the world.

Congress is in limbo right now: although its own new session has begun, with Republicans in control of both the House and the ...

Analysis: Carter navigated the barbed wire of the politics of religion, Eric Garcia reports. In doing so, he ran his race and he kept his faith ...

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Today’s lawmakers hailed the 39th president, but their predecessors made his four years in office a constant battle and ...