House GOP

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

Plus, a Detroit-style Coney Island pizza?

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

Or minority leader.

When Paul Ryan agreed in October 2015 to become speaker of the House, some Republicans worried he couldn’t handle the political side of the job. Known as a policy wonk and not a political fundraiser, Ryan had insisted that one condition of his taking on the job would be that he would spend his…

Lawmakers in the House voted to advance a short-term spending bill Thursday night, a critical next step in keeping the government up and running before funds run out at midnight on Friday.

"I'm for the most conservative outcome that we can get,” Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell told Politico’s Manu Raju last summer. House speaker John Boehner would agree with that goal. But critics to their right disagree. They are for the most conservative outcome they cannot get.

When Laura Campbell heard about new water regulations emanating from President Barack Obama's Environmental Protection Agency a few years back, she started calling up maps on her computer.

In this episode of THE WEEKLY STANDARD Confab, Fred Barnes joins host Eric Felten to talk about GOP hopes to get things done even with President Trump pulling down the party like a boat anchor. Thomas Joscelyn tells us how not to lose the 9/11 wars. And John McCormack unravels the conspiratorial…

Republicans are not dead yet. In the House, they are moving ahead briskly on tax reform. In the Senate, Republicans are talking privately in hopes of agreeing on how to repeal and replace Obamacare, the House having already passed its bill overhauling the health care system.

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, editor at large William Kristol shares his perspective on the House's passage of the American Health Care Act and the road ahead in the Senate for Obamacare repeal.

The House Freedom Caucus officially backs an updated version of the GOP health care bill that includes a significant amendment co-sponsored by the group's chairman, the conservative bloc's spokeswoman announced early Wednesday afternoon. She did not respond immediately to a Twitter inquiry asking…

In this episode of THE WEEKLY STANDARD Confab, Fred Barnes tells host Eric Felten why President Trump and Congressional Republicans need to focus on a simplified tax-cutting agenda after the fiasco of an over-complicated health care attempt. With a scandal-ridden president out of office, shaky…

President Donald Trump emerged from a meeting with House Republicans Tuesday morning confident that their health care bill would pass the lower chamber this week, even as conservatives continued to express doubts about the legislation's new and arguably improved substance.

Trusting the process makes for good life advice and bad legislating. The morning after congressional Republicans released their Obamacare replacement, dubbed the American Health Care Act, conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham complained it lacked the "Trumpism of the health care reform" the…

Trusting the process makes for good life advice and bad legislating. The morning after congressional Republicans released their Obamacare replacement, dubbed the American Health Care Act, conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham complained it lacked the “Trumpism of the health care reform" the…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with frequent contributor and Hudson Institute senior fellow Jeffrey H. Anderson on repealing Obamacare, and his related story about how the GOP can avoid being blamed for high premiums.

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Michael Warren on the House GOP's Office of Congressional Ethics foibles in the newly gaveled in 115th Congress.

Days after House speaker Paul Ryan said he would begin focusing solely on preserving the GOP's House majority, a new poll of congressional races may get Republicans feeling and seeing blue.

Legislation that prohibits future cash payments to Iran passed the House on Thursday. The White House has pledged to veto the legislation, however, saying it would "undermine U.S. obligations and ultimately benefit Iran at the expense of the United States."

It has long been obvious that it's not too hard to design a health-care plan that beats Obamacare. Nonpartisan scoring now finds that the House Republican health-care plan (released earlier this summer) would beat Obamacare in terms of reducing premiums, reducing federal spending, increasing access…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with staff writer Jay Cost on whether the House GOP majority is at risk.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with staff writer Michael Warren on Kevin McCarthy's exit from the Speaker's race and what that means for the House GOP.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with editor William Kristol on the next House speaker, the House GOP, and whether they abide by the Peter Principle.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with senior writer Stephen F. Hayes on the fate of the Iran deal and the House GOP's last minute efforts to delay or defeat it.

Confident about the upcoming election, and afraid they’d fumble a handoff, House Republicans have apparently decided to take a knee until voters cast their ballots. But this timid run-out-the-clock mentality has the potential to hurt the party in both the short term and the long run.

Election Day is almost nine months off. But right now Republicans seem almost certain to hold the House of Representatives and are likely to take the Senate. Which raises the inevitable question: How might the GOP seize defeat from the jaws of victory?

House Republicans don’t get no respect. Has there been in recent times a more derided, mocked, and pitied bunch? Establishment types think the backbenchers are Neanderthals, grassroots activists denounce the leadership as a bunch of squishes, and the media can’t find enough bad things to say about…

House Republicans don’t get no respect. Has there been in recent times a more derided, mocked, and pitied bunch? Establishment types think the backbenchers are Neanderthals, grassroots activists denounce the leadership as a bunch of squishes, and the media can’t find enough bad things to say about…

The WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with editor William Kristol on race relations, Filibuster reform, and the House GOP.

At a meeting this morning in the Capitol, House Republican leaders unveiled an amended debt limit plan. National Journal has the latest text of the plan, but what has Republicans more confident that it will pass the House is the inclusion of a plan to with balanced budget amendment (BBA) proposals.…

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