Mychael Schnell

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — House Republicans are ready to turn the page on the 118th Congress. During their annual retreat at the swanky Greenbrier resort in West Virginia this week, House GOP leaders expressed confidence ahead of the November elections, predicting that the conference will expand its majority and, as a result, have an easier time...

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday predicted that the House will “probably” change the rules around the motion to vacate in the next Congress, months after eight Republicans banded with Democrats to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) using the procedural maneuver. Johnson — speaking at a kickoff press conference during...

House GOP leaders set to embark on their annual issues conference in West Virginia this week face a daunting task: uniting their warring factions ahead of a series of high-stakes legislative battles at the very root of the party’s infighting. The annual retreat, at the swanky Greenbrier resort in remote White Sulphur Springs, will offer Republicans...

Special counsel Robert Hur is set to testify on Capitol Hill this week, roughly one month after he published a controversial report that stopped short of bringing charges against President Biden for “willfully” retaining classified documents, but raised questions about his mental state and memory. The report sparked outrage on both sides of the aisle: Republicans...

President Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address to a bitterly divided Congress — and nation — Thursday night, one that many viewed as unusually political as the president prepares to take on former President Trump in the general election. The hour-plus speech touched on a host of issues dominating the 2024 cycle — such...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said GOP lawmakers who heckled President Biden during his State of the Union address Thursday evening were responding to an “overly partisan speech.” A handful of Republicans shouted out at Biden throughout his remarks in the House chamber, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), whose yells prompted an unusual back-and-forth between...

The sprint to stave off a partial government shutdown is set to collide with President Biden’s State of the Union address this week, as the president prepares to go face-to-face with some of his fiercest GOP opponents — who have sharply criticized his handling of spending matters — one day before the funding deadline. Biden’s State...

House conservatives are finding themselves increasingly sidelined and frustrated as Congress barrels toward a bipartisan deal to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year without the steep cuts the far right has demanded. Hard-liners so far have had enough leverage to prevent a long-term budget agreement from being struck, partly because any...

The House Judiciary Committee is spearheading an investigation into the discovery of classified documents at President Biden’s home and office, less than two weeks after Republicans took control of the lower chamber. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chairman of the panel, and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) penned a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on...

Four House Republicans are calling on Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to resign from Congress amid revelations that the first-term lawmaker misrepresented parts of his résumé and biography. The quartet — all of whom are first-term lawmakers hailing from New York — pointed to the mistruths Santos pushed on the campaign trail, arguing that he should step aside...