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News Articles: House Republicans

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks to reporters after meeting privately with House Speaker Mike Johnson at the Capitol earlier this year.

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  • Politics

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson

It's the second time in less than a year that House Republicans have pushed to remove their elected leader.

March 22, 2024
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • Lexie Schapitl
Hunter Biden's lawyer reiterated that the president's son will only testify publicly before the House Oversight Committee.

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  • Politics

Hunter Biden's lawyer says again that president's son will only testify publicly

The development comes as House Republicans inch closer to a vote to officially begin an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

December 06, 2023
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By:
  • Washington Desk
Republicans in the House dashed Rep. Jim Jordan's speakership bid after three rounds of voting last week. The search for a House speaker is stretching into its third week, with nine new contenders vying for the job.

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  • Politics

As the House GOP struggles to pick a speaker, a lawmaker aims to simplify the process

Previous efforts to elect a House speaker have failed at the floor vote. As the search stretches into a third week, Rep. Mike Flood wants Republicans to commit to voting for their party's nominee.

October 23, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, talks with reporters as House Republicans meet again behind closed doors to find a path to elect a new speaker on Friday.

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  • Politics

Jim Jordan tapped as Republican House speaker nominee

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has been nominated as the speaker designate in a closed-door meeting of House Republicans.

October 13, 2023
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By:
  • Susan Davis,
  • Deirdre Walsh,
  • and 1 more
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., talks to reporters as he leaves Republicans' closed-door forum in which they heard from the candidates for House speaker on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

Rep. Steve Scalise wins the House GOP speaker nomination

House Republicans picked the current majority leader for speaker: He won a majority of the Republicans' 221 votes in a closed-door, secret-ballot election. Timing for a floor vote remains unclear.

October 11, 2023
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By:
  • Susan Davis,
  • Deirdre Walsh,
  • and 1 more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (center) walks with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., (left) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on September 21. Zelenskyy made his renewed case for American aid to Ukraine to a deeply divided Congress.

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  • Politics

The fate of Ukraine funding lies in the balance with speaker's race

The next House speaker will need to win the support of 218 members and Ukraine aid is expected to be a significant factor.

October 06, 2023
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By:
  • Lexie Schapitl
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., enters his office at the U.S. Capitol on Monday, the day before he was voted out as speaker.

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  • Politics

The House can't work without a speaker. How will it choose McCarthy's successor?

Republicans plan to convene for a candidate forum on Tuesday and hold a speakership vote on Wednesday. While it's not clear who will be running, there's no question they face a tough road ahead.

October 05, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy continues to battle a group of conservatives who oppose any short-term spending bill ahead of a likely government shutdown.

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  • Politics

House GOP hardliners block spending stopgap with shutdown looming

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rejected a bipartisan Senate proposal to keep agencies funded through November 17 and instead moved a GOP bill that linked another month of spending with border security.

September 29, 2023
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters following a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

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  • Politics

McCarthy revives immigration battles in bid to shift shutdown blame from GOP feuds

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy still faces a bloc of conservatives who oppose any short-term funding bill to avoid a shutdown. He's trying to muscle through a partisan stopgap bill with border security.

September 27, 2023
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • Lexie Schapitl
Attorney General Merrick Garland appears before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

AG Garland defends DOJ's Hunter Biden investigation at House Judiciary hearing

Republicans spent the nearly six-hour-long hearing interrogating Attorney General Merrick Garland over the agency's investigations into Hunter Biden and former President Donald Trump.

September 20, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., plans to hold the first hearing on the impeachment into President Biden next week.

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  • Politics

House Republicans to hold first impeachment hearing into President Biden next week

House Oversight Committee Republicans plan to hold the first hearing on an impeachment inquiry into President Biden on Thursday, September 28.

September 19, 2023
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh
The National Museum of American History has some impeachment buttons from the Nixon years in their collection.

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  • Politics

Past impeachments, products of their times, often produced unintended consequences

Previous instances of presidential impeachment have each had contexts unique to their own political moments. These considerations have mattered as much as the alleged "high crimes and misdemeanors."

September 17, 2023
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By:
  • Ron Elving
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is working to contain a revolt by hard-line members of his party that could threaten his job as speaker and a potential government shutdown.

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  • Politics

As House Republicans bicker, the government shutdown threat grows

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is working to contain a revolt by hard-line members of his party that could threaten his job as speaker and a potential government shutdown.

September 14, 2023
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By:
  • Lexie Schapitl and
  • Deirdre Walsh
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is working to convince members of his own party to support a stop-gap spending bill while also defending his job as speaker.

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  • Politics

McCarthy's plans for impeachment don't appear to be tamping down shutdown threat

A group of hard-line House Republicans say House Speaker Kevin McCarthy cannot win their support on spending by launching an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

September 13, 2023
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • Lexie Schapitl
President Donald J. Trump touted his plan to end the HIV epidemic during his 2019 State of the Union Address. The effort has sent $1.7 billion mainly to southern states.

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  • Health Care

Trump launched an ambitious effort to end HIV. House Republicans want to defund it

Republicans in Congress back substantial cuts to the budget of the CDC, taking aim at one of former President Donald Trump's major health programs: a push to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S.

August 31, 2023
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  • Andy Miller and
  • Sam Whitehead
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