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Supporters argue the legislation should be viewed as a strong signal to Saudi leaders regardless of whether it passes.

Leadership races have much lower stakes now that the GOP has lost the House.

It has slim chances of becoming law, and they have no backup. But it’s a plan.

The president says he will "make changes" to legislation after he is briefed on the bill.

The Wisconsin Republican took over as leader in 2015, replacing John Boehner.

President Trump threw a potential wrench into congressional budget discussions Friday morning, threatening to veto the omnibus package that Republican leaders pushed to his desk just hours before to avoid a government shutdown.

President Donald Trump split with Republicans in Congress on a key aspect of the party’s short-term government funding measure Thursday morning.

Republicans are scrambling to pass a short-term spending bill to keep the government up and running, just 72 hours before a shutdown deadline.

A tweet from President Donald Trump Thursday morning sowed confusion about the White House’s position on a key intelligence program and imperiled the already shaky efforts to renew the federal government’s ability to monitor the communications of terrorists and other threats.

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The Tax Foundation on Monday said the final GOP tax bill would increase the national debt by $448 billion over the next decade, far less than the estimated $1.5 trillion in lost tax revenues under the bill.

Congressman Trent Franks announced his resignation from Congress Thursday evening, saying he was unwilling to undergo an Ethics Committee investigation into conversations about surrogacy he had in recent years with two female staffers.

The House of Representatives passed its tax reform bill on Thursday on a 227-205 vote. All Democrats present and 13 Republicans voted against it.

Are Republicans going to lose the House in 2018? And if they do, will it be President Trump’s fault?

GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia announced on Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2018, citing the upcoming end of his tenure as chair of the House Judiciary Committee.

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday pushed back against criticisms of the provision repealing the adoption tax credit in the Republican bill to overhaul the tax code, saying the bill overall would benefit families. "It is a tax credit that goes to higher income individuals. Middle and low income…

The House Republican tax reform package met immediate resistance after it was unveiled Thursday. Some blue-state GOP reps were wary of the measure’s treatment of state and local sales taxes. Sens. Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Jeff Flake, and Bob Corker expressed their own concerns. The National…

The House of Representatives Friday passed a White House-backed bill that provides $15 billion for hurricane relief while raising the federal debt ceiling and funding the government until December.

In a shot at their colleagues in the Senate who failed to pass their Obamacare repeal measure overnight, House GOP members reportedly played “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” before a meeting on Friday. "The searches all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay, If they’d put 15 more miles behind…

Pictured above: Three skinny health reform amendments that could stand a chance of passing.

The Associated Press reported Sunday some accurate, if incomplete information about Sen. Ted Cruz’s health reform proposal. “Cruz’s plan,” the story reads, “… aims to lower premiums for healthy people.” The article provided no additional details, either specifics or their presumed consequences,…

President Trump may not realize it, but he needs House Republicans more than they need him. If they keep the House in next year's midterm election, Republicans can block Democrats from impeaching him. But if Democrats take over, Republican won't be able to prevent them from taking up impeachment.

While everyone was watching James Comey's testimony on Thursday, House Republicans gave their colleagues in the Senate a major bargaining chip in their ongoing negotiations for financial reform.

The House formally reelected Paul Ryan to the speakership Tuesday in a vote that was tamer than what the GOP majority has endured in recent years, with only one of his party colleagues defecting.

The House GOP majority reversed course Tuesday on a move that would have weakened an independent congressional watchdog, after party leaders, including President-elect Donald Trump, voiced their opposition to the original action.

Donald Trump's newly tapped senior advisor Steve Bannon has previously expressed open disdain for Republican House speaker Paul Ryan, dubbing him an "enemy" and calling for his removal from the position. But House Republicans brushed off the possibility that Bannon's attacks on Ryan would drive a…

The earmark, banished by House Republicans in 2011, could be making a comeback.

The politics of funding a divided federal government has always pitted administrations against Congress, but according to House speaker Paul Ryan, the Obama administration is taking it to new levels.

In the wake of the undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood’s involvement in the trafficking of aborted baby tissue and body parts, the U.S. Senate has scheduled a vote to defund Planned Parenthood. It’s a fine first step by Congress in response to the horror revealed by the Center for Medical…

In 1989, Gary Palmer founded the Alabama Policy Institute, a conservative think tank. By the time he resigned as its president last year, API had become a powerful force on state issues, everything from pensions to prison reform to politics. Palmer led the successful fight against a lottery—Alabama…

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer was asked Wednesday morning to decribe what he considers President Obama’s "precepts" for getting things done in Washington. “There’s almost no characteristic more important than discipline,” Pfeiffer responded.

In 2010, Republicans won control of the House by offering to resist the Obama agenda. But their victory left open the question of whether they would also confront the grave fiscal challenges facing the country, and move beyond mere opposition to present an alternative governing vision to that of…

Looks like they've been reading the WEEKLY STANDARD on Capitol Hill. This afternoon the Republican leadership and Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan released the following statement:

Fred Barnes writes in the Wall Street Journal:

House Republicans today selected committee chairmen for the 112th Congress. Here are the results:

As the House Appropriations Committee stands poised to make a former earmarker its chairman, incoming House speaker John Boehner throws his support to porkbuster Jeff Flake: 

Republican congressman Fred Upton of Michigan is angling for the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and in so doing has taken to calling himself a "pro-lifer." But Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee writes in a letter to the House Republican Steering Committee…