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Pro-life leaders and members of Congress are focused on statements from House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy indicating that a government shutdown over defunding Planned Parenthood is unlikely.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy tells reporters he expects a healthy debate about funding Planned Parenthood, but would not say whether or not Republicans intend to insist on defunding the abortion organization.

Rep. Paul Ryan won the first round of votes for the job of House Speaker, but 45 Republican legislators voted against him. Those 45 members are enough to block him from getting the Speakership during the partisan floor vote on

The secret, top-level process used to create the federal budget for 2016 and 2017 really “stinks,” says Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who is likely to replace Rep. John Boehner as House Speaker this week. But he did not promise to vote against the $8 trillion plan.

Vice President Joe Biden’s announcement on Wednesday that he would not run for president of the United States made it a foregone conclusion that the media would worship at the shrine of Hillary Clinton during her Benghazi testimony on Thursday.

After a few weeks of hand-wringing over the horrors of “politicized” Benghazi hearings, based entirely on the foolish words of Rep. Kevin McCarthy – who had nothing to do with those hearings – and a disgruntled ex-staffer of dubious portfolio, the media is suddenly very happy with Democrats politicizing the hell out of those hearings.

Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), a member of the House Freedom Caucus suggested that Republicans should “perhaps” look at someone other than Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), who he described as “from the liberal half” of the conference, as speaker and that

Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC), a liberal Republican congresswoman from North Carolina, censored the press in her district on Tuesday—refusing to allow credentialed members of the media to ask legitimate questions of the congresswoman about her alleged affair with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy or about the House Speakership race.

California Democrats in the Bay Area are eagerly awaiting tonight’s Democratic presidential debates in Las Vegas, Nevada where Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will duke it out as Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee seek to garner more national attention in their own bids for the coveted nomination.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is playing a long game when it comes to a potential Speakership bid. Meanwhile, amid House GOP conference chaos the establishment-backed House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), continues to play Hamlet on his own potential bid.

President Barack Obama managed to squeeze two rounds of golf into his busy schedule on Sunday and Monday during his latest fundraising stint in California.

Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) circulated a letter Monday saying that if Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) stays out of the race for Speaker of the House, Flores will throw his own name in the hat, according to CNN.

Conservative radio host Sean Hannity says Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) isn’t the right man to be Speaker of the House and is urging other members of the House to come up with another option.

Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots is out with a blistering statement urging House Republicans to hold the line in the Speakership battles and not accept House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the next Speaker of the House.

Illinois Republican Peter Roskam is one of the emerging candidates to replace Ohioan John Boehner as the powerful Speaker of the House of Representatives. So, who is Peter Roskam?

A new analysis from the American Conservative Union (ACU) of voting records of various potential GOP candidates for Speaker of the House under the soon-to-be-ending Speakership of Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) shows that Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is far and away the best viable candidate for Speaker.

President Barack Obama raised money across California this weekend, while U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy went into seclusion upon returning home to Bakersfield. Obama even poked fun at the turmoil in Republican ranks, which intensified when McCarthy withdrew from the Speaker’s race in the House.

It appears as if those conservative “wacko birds” in the U.S. House of Representatives really do have a lot of sway up in Washington, D.C.

The problem is that the Republican leadership betrayed their own base one time too many. What happened in 2014 was quite simple: the GOP asked voters to give them both House and Senate to put the brakes on Obama’s disastrous agenda, and the voters took them up on it. The capitulations and walkbacks began with days of the last races being called. The old song-and-dance about how “we’ll fight next time” and “we need just a little more power to get anything done” was performed one last time, to disastrous effect.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Friday the reason why the mainstream media is not visibly celebrating Kevin McCarthy’s decision to drop his bid for House Speaker and the ensuing Republican Party implosion is because the perception is that conservatives have won a victory over Washington insider establishment individuals like McCarthy.

Rep. Renée Ellmers is calling rumors that she had an affair with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy “completely false accusations.”

With unseemly rumors swirling about an alleged affair between Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Ellmers reportedly thanked her colleagues for their “prayers and support” during a closed-door meeting Friday.

Since the Tea Party arose in 2009, it has achieved two major goals, but failed to fulfill its third and most important task: taking power.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” host Bill O’Reilly reacted to the decision by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to drop his bid to fill the House Speaker’s position soon to be vacated by John Boehner (R-OH). According

Representative Peter King (R-NY) said that he doesn’t consider members of the House Freedom Caucus conservatives, and said them withholding votes from Kevin McCarthy is “the stuff that goes on in banana republics” on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room.”

Some on Capitol Hill believe that House Speaker John Boehner is going to attempt to remain in his position through mid-December.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump took credit for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dropping out of the race for Speaker of the House to replace Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) at the end of October.

The Fox News Channel’s “Shepard Smith Reporting” host Shepard Smith argued the Freedom Caucus “demands” Washington grind to a halt and wants “disarray” while discussing House Majority Leader Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pulling out of the race to become House speaker

Thursday at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said people are giving him “a lot of credit” for House Majority Kevin McCarthy dropping out of the race to be the next Speaker of the House.

he House Freedom Caucus said it was “surprised” by Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s dropping out of the race for Speaker of the House, but respects his decision.

GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump, Gov. Mike Huckabee, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Gov. Jeb Bush made several statements following Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dropping out of the race for Speaker of the House, suggesting a tough, conservative choice for the people.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) should put her name in the race to become the next Speaker of the House, says the American Conservative Union’s executive director, Daniel Schneider.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) decision to drop out of the speakership race shows “deep divisions and dysfunction” among House Republicans, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) argued Thursday. “As a result of their divisions and their efforts to disrupt Congress’s work, we’ve experienced a government shutdown, a near-default on our debt, and too many missed opportunities to grow our economy and support job creation,” Hoyer said in a statement.

House Speaker John Boehner announced that he would remain as Speaker of the House until a replacement was elected, after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suddenly dropped out of the race to replace him.

Thursday on MSNBC, in commenting on House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dropping out of the race for the Speaker of the House seat soon to be vacated by John Boehner (R-OH), Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) said conservatives in

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was asked if he dropped out of the race for Speaker of the House because of his Benghazi comments, which were politicized by Hillary Clinton. He suggests it did influence his decision.