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 ...

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

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

WASHINGTON -- This time was supposed to be different.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...