Madigan and his co-defendant – longtime confidant Michael McClain – are on trial on racketeering and bribery charges​.

Pennsylvania lawmakers on Tuesday returned Democratic Speaker Joanna McClinton to lead the chamber for the new session after ...

What could have been a dramatic and drawn-out process, McClinton was reelected with ease — without requiring GOP members to ...

After South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace made a spectacle of transgender people’s access to bathrooms in the U.S.

After an extended 18-day holiday break in testimony, attorneys for ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan on Monday unveiled a new ...

Plus: Report from New Orleans in the days since the terror attack on Bourbon Street, and the Surgeon General's new advisory ...

President-elect Trump reasserted his power over the House GOP conference during Friday’s whirlwind Speaker vote, proving that ...

This Wednesday, lawmakers in the Vermont House of Representatives will be voting for their next speaker during the first ...

Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won reelection Friday as House speaker on a first ballot, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts ...

WASHINGTON -- This time was supposed to be different.

The House of Representatives has adopted new rules that would make it harder to trigger a vote to oust a speaker. House ...

Only one Republican representative has confirmed that he will oppose Mike Johnson’s return as House speaker, but a few other ...