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Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), a rare moderate and anti-abortion Democrat, reportedly rejected calls to switch political parties over the weekend.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) said it is a “risky” and “bad strategy” to try and challenge Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for speaker of the House.

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the House Freedom Caucus was floating the idea of nominating former President Donald Trump as Speaker of the House.

Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy (CA), the current minority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, announced Wednesday afternoon his bid to become Speaker of the House as the post-election leadership race start.

Four years after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly made a deal to serve only four more years — when some Democrat lawmakers dissented on her rise to the speakership in 2018 — she will not say if she intends to keep a leadership position after the midterms, but other members may be quietly making the decision for her.

Twenty-six Republican senators, in a rare move supporting a member of the opposite party, released a statement supporting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for stopping in Taiwan during her diplomatic trip to Asia.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) abruptly exited her weekly press conference on Thursday after being asked about her husband’s questionable stock transactions; at the same time, the Senate was readying a vote that would directly benefit the industry he invested in.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) would be willing to be the one to nominate GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for speaker should House Republicans take back the majority in the midterms this year.

Rep. Kim Schrier (D-WA), who as a candidate said she would not take campaign money from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and stated that the House needs “new, energized” leadership, voted to elect her as speaker twice and has since taken $31,000 in campaign contributions, a report stated.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will run for reelection, hoping to extend her time in the House past the midterms next year, according to a report from CNN.

Mask-wearing has once again become mandatory in Britain’s House of Commons – for everyone except Members of Parliament.

LONDON (AP) – Leaders from across the political spectrum came together Saturday to pay tribute to a long-serving British lawmaker who was stabbed to death in what police have described as a terrorist incident.

Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA), seen as a possible replacement for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), reportedly failed to disclose up to $285,000 in stock trades.

Vulnerable Democrats infighting could possibly derail House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) hopes of passing her radical so-called infrastructure bill.

House Republicans blew away their Democrat counterparts in the second quarter of 2021, shattering fundraising records to pull in an astounding $45.4 million from April through June of this year.

Former President Donald Trump released a statement Friday morning targeting “RINO” Paul Ryan, the former “lame duck” Speaker of the House, for his “monumental” loss in 2012 and being “a weak and ineffective leader.”

The House Republicans’ campaign arm, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), brought in more than $11.2 million for its best off-year April fundraising ever.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said Monday night on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was willing to “politically prostitute” himself to become Speaker of the House.

House members who are otherwise supposed to be in quarantine due to exposure to the Chinese coronavirus are reportedly using a separate entrance and “secure enclosure” on Sunday to vote in the speakership election.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) could once again see her speakership challenged following a lackluster showing of House Democrat candidates in Tuesday’s 2020 election.

The Brady Amendment, if passed, would have allowed MPs the chance to debate and reject these extreme policies.

CLAIM: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is a “third-rate politician.” VERDICT: False. She is at least a second-rate politician.

Impeachment is inevitably a losing issue. Pelosi made it so when she launched an “impeachment inquiry” without waiting for the evidence.

How entirely fitting of the man and his methods that right to the very last he should do the most hateful and annoying thing possible: not clinging on to office so that we can enjoy the satisfaction of seeing him booted out in the imminent general election; but rather jumping before he is pushed…

Mitt Romney (R-UT) came to the defense of former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R) Friday after President Trump tweeted a response to Ryan’s recent attack on Trump’s character.

President Donald Trump blasted former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Thursday evening in a series of tweets, following Ryan’s reported criticism of the president in quotes provided for a new book.

Remain-backing speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has said that a second referendum “is possible” and that there is no reason constitutional why another vote could not reverse the decision made by the British people in 2016. 

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told the Washington Post in an interview that he still believes President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with the Russian government, despite Special Counsel Robert Mueller finding that there was no collusion.

The Remainer Deep State is killing Brexit. Just consider for a moment the last few days’ shenanigans in and around Parliament…

U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reacted Thursday to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) profane statement about impeaching the president and said Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who was just elected Speaker of the House for the second time, should have a

The New York Times reported: “Asked if she considers herself Mr. Trump’s equal, [Nancy Pelosi] replied, ‘The Constitution does.'”

The first woman to wield the gavel of the House of Representatives is on track to secure it for a second time on Thursday, as a rebellion against her from within her own ranks was crushed from election day until now.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), who previously stated he would vote against Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for Speaker of the House, has now changed his mind, according to a statement released by the congressman on Wednesday.

Seventeen House Democrats will pledge on Monday to oppose Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) bid for speaker of the House, which may block her attempt to lead the House of Representatives.

“She may need some votes. I will perform a wonderful service for her. I like her,” Trump said. “Can you believe it? I like Nancy Pelosi. She’s tough, and she’s smart, but she deserves to be speaker.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the top House Democrat and the only declared Democrat candidate for speaker, is reportedly having issues securing a majority of 218 votes in the new Congress that will be seated next year. That is the requisite number of members she needs to publicly cast votes for her on the Floor if she wants to regain the speaker’s gavel in the next Congress now that Democrats have retaken the House majority.