The House Republican Caucus has named Rep. David Cook, a Mansfield Republican, as its pick for House speaker, but his ...

U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, delivered a farewell speech Tuesday afternoon on the Senate floor. Cardin, 81, has been a longtime fixture in Maryland politics, serving in elected office over 58 ...

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan will not hold his leadership role when lawmakers return to Austin in January for the next ...

The retreat is currently scheduled for January 27 through 29. While not all of the 220 Republicans representatives are ...

The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a sweeping $895 billion defense policy bill that includes a ban on transgender care for children of military members.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as an ending of the country's longest ...

Equality California, the statewide LGBTQ rights organization, is taking stock of what went well and what went poorly during ...

Donald Trump, the US president-elect who’s staunchly opposed to changes to the constitutional right to bear arms (per the second amendment), has suggested he’s happy to amend the country’s ...

President Biden is threatening to veto a bipartisan bill to add 66 judges to the federal bench, an expansion discussed for ...

School vouchers, border enforcement and energy infrastructure are on the GOP agenda in Texas. A fight for speaker of the ...

Days after the Texas House GOP caucus backed Cook, Abbott made clear that he expects Republican representatives to do the ...

The Texas House of Representatives elects a Speaker at the beginning of each session. The Speaker maintains order on the House floor and directs bills to committees. Dade Phelan has been Speaker ...