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"We don't have any idea what promises were made or what gentleman's handshakes were made," said Rep. Nancy Mace

House GOP is promising all kinds of unhinged investigations — but Senate Democrats have subpoena powers too

Voters who support Lauren Boebert are hoping the firebrand Republican congresswoman from Colorado tones down her brash style

He plans a quick spate of red-meat actions and announcements to reward hardliners who backed him

With Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, House Republicans gear up to wage a two year war on reality itself

For years, Kevin McCarthy wanted to be speaker of the House in the worst possible way, and that's precisely what he accomplished by winning the leadership post after 15 humiliating rounds of voting and days of give-away-the-store negotiations.

In the end, he couldn’t even get 218 votes, a simple majority. The GOP’s Kevin McCarthy gained the House speakership in the dead of night early Saturday, but the last winner of a 15-rounder who emerged this battered and bloody was Muhammad Ali, who told reporters after 1975′s “Thrilla in…

The television split screen told the story.

The only good thing about Kevin McCarthy scheduling his supposedly triumphant 14th House roll call vote that would finally make him speaker for 10 p.m. Friday, is that it wasn’t a school night. McCarthy, of course, lost that 14th vote and 15th-round balloting went well past midnight. When McCarthy said,…

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