KEVIN MCCARTHY

One of the last remaining anti-abortion Democrats in Congress faces the political fight of his life in Texas.

The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn had a conflict of interest in a cryptocurrency he promoted and engaged in an improper relationship with a member of his staff.

Rep. David Valadao (R-Hanford) infuriated Central Valley conservatives when he voted to impeach Trump. But Trump is silent on Valadao's reelection bid.

In this tale of two parties, it's the worst of times for American democracy.

House GOP leaders were among the 192 Republicans who voted against providing $28 million in aid to the Food and Drug Administration to address the shortage of baby formula.

Congress has bestowed its highest honor on merchant mariners who fought in World War II, almost eight decades after the conflict in which more than 8,000 of them were killed.

In their new account of the 2020 election, two New York Times reporters reveal just how broken American democracy has become.

House investigators are unlikely to call former President Donald Trump to testify about his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

During a recent press conference, a reporter asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) if he would comply with a subpoena he received from the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. McCarthy is one of several GOP lawmakers recently subpoenaed by the January 6 panel. The reporter also asked about a tape recording of McCarthy speaking to Republicans, during which McCarthy said that former President Trump bore some responsibility for the January 6 insurrection.

A security meeting with the US Capitol Police is scheduled for May 20 to prepare lawmakers and their staff for the public hearings in June, per Axios.

The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

Some GOP leaders have been actively campaigning — or quietly maneuvering — against Trump’s picks in a way that could potentially threaten his sway over the party.

There are a number of options on the table for the Jan. 6 committee to enforce new and historic subpoenas against House Republicans. Which one it takes will show how serious the committee is -- and could reverberate.

This is an extraordinary step that is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 Capitol insurrection.

The move marks a significant escalation in the committee’s efforts to obtain information related to lawmakers’ communications before, during and after the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

House investigators say they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection.

The House committee investigating the Capitol attack demanded testimony from House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other lawmakers.

The House committee investigating the Capitol attack demanded testimony from House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other lawmakers.

There is little history of a congressional committee issuing subpoenas for members of Congress. The move now escalates the war between House Republicans opposed to the investigation and the panel.

The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot subpoenaed House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Trump-allied lawmakers.

Democrats in many parts of the country are facing a potentially grim political year, but in California no one is talking about the liberal stronghold changing direction. California's largely irrelevant Republican Party could field only little-known candidates for governor and U.S. Senate, and the GOP appears to have only isolated chances for upsets even under what should be favorable conditions for the party. President Joe Biden's popularity has sagged — even among some of his fellow Democrats — and the party in the White House typically loses congressional seats in midterm elections.

The two met in Mar-a-Lago for the first time since leaked audio showed McCarthy saying he believed Trump should resign in the wake of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

The committee sent out three letters to sitting members of Congress on Monday, seeking a range of information.

The panel investigating the attack on the Capitol asked U.S. Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama and Ronny Jackson of Texas to appear.

The ruling, from a Trump-appointed judge, is also a potentially significant one for future committee efforts to obtain information

Text messages and testimony released by the House Jan. 6 panel shows the deep involvement of some House Republicans in President Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power.

Shakespeare observed that "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Something similar seems to apply to the title of Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The young House member has been at the center of a rash of scandals recently.

Pelosi on Friday noted that McCarthy had condemned fines on GOP lawmakers who tried to bypass metal detectors installed outside the House chamber after Jan. 6.

Donald Trump Jr., the son of ex-President Donald Trump, and Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani are expected to be interviewed by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot committee.

The moment for collective action arrived, and Republicans all froze.

New billboards in Rep. Kevin McCarthy's California district say he should "stop lying" following his comments in leaked audio clips.

In recent weeks, the Republican leader has repeatedly put words in the mouth of the attorney general.

Most Republicans have rallied around the House GOP leader after a week of harried efforts that resulted in more statements of praise than criticism from fellow lawmakers — and a clear nod of approval from Trump.

What if the GOP stopped capitulating to Trump? Plus: There’s a reason kids make better philosophers than grown-ups do.

Kevin McCarthy received a standing ovation from House Republicans during a meeting on Wednesday after he addressed leaked audio from a phone call days after the Capitol riot.

McCarthy's speakership bid now seems to revolve around the idea that he's being persecuted. That'll ring true to Republicans and be emotionally satisfying, even as they avert their gaze on his obvious shortcomings.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has assured colleagues he never asked then-President Donald Trump to resign over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.

McCarthy's line of argument was one that many in the House Republican conference appeared willing to accept Wednesday.

The extent of the House Republican leader's Jan. 6 concern is coming into focus — as is his retreat from that concern.

The committee is racing to wrap up this phase of its work amid newly released recordings of the GOP leader's private remarks after the January 6 attack.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol is redoubling its efforts to have GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy appear for an interview.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) slammed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Tuesday after The New York Times published a report that featured recorded comments from the two congressmen airing concerns about the Florida Republican’s remarks in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Gaetz…

Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina was cited for bringing a loaded handgun to an international airport.

Biggs, a former leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, is among the first House Republicans to openly criticize McCarthy over his remarks about Trump and the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.

A report said that McCarthy told fellow Republicans that he would call Trump and ask him to resign following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is downplaying secretly recorded remarks he made about Donald Trump shortly after last year’s attack on the Capitol.

The House Republican leader over and over has denied he said he would ask Trump to resign -- and here are the many ways he has been misleading.

“Shame on Kevin McCarthy,” Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said.

“Shame on Kevin McCarthy,” Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is slamming Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a “liar and a traitor” over recordings that show the House Republican leader, despite his denials, placing responsibility on Donald Trump for the Capitol riot and suggesting Trump should resign.

Amid turmoil over his comments on Trump, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks at California GOP convention.

Caught in a lie after denying he talked about urging Trump to resign after the Jan. 6 insurrection, the GOP House leader seeks the former president’s forgiveness to keep his speakership hopes alive

The next House speaker could very well hail from California, but if Republicans take control, that leader won't come from the part of the state represented by the current speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco.

McCarthy faces a tricky conversation with his conference over what he said, which could come when the House returns from recess next week, but the ultimate judge is likely former President Trump.

The GOP leader, who wants to be speaker, wouldn’t tell his members whether he would vote to certify Biden’s victory.

"He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told fellow House Republicans days after the attack.

Ex-President Trump and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy have spoken privately since the Jan. 6 tapes surfaced, a source says.

A recording caught the House minority leader in an outright falsehood.

Speaking at an Earth Day event in Seattle, President Biden expressed frustration with Republican members of Congress, who he claimed privately support his administration's environmental agenda but refuse to publicly endorse legislation out of fear of being seen as too liberal. During his remarks, Biden referenced the leaked audio recording of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., telling members of the Republican Caucus days after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots that, among other things, he was planning to call on then-president Donald Trump to resign.

Republican leaders are more beholden than ever to a narcissistic demagogue who has no respect for democracy or the law.

Though he lost to President Joe Biden, Trump remains the most popular figure in the Republican Party and has hinted he will run for president in 2024.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection he'd urge then-President Donald Trump to resign.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy had a “positive” call with Donald Trump, despite the release of an audio recording critical of the former president shortly after the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

Just seven Republicans, along with most Democrats, used remote voting in the House when voting-from-somewhere-else was first allowed two years ago as the pandemic erupted.

The House has voted to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress over their monthslong refusal to comply with subpoenas from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill that President Joe Biden signed recently.

The ban on asylum-seekers at the U.

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has endorsed a state legislator over U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn in the upcoming Republican primary.

Piecing together the activities of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, is no easy task.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has unveiled a new policy platform for Republicans ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska says he will resign from office, effective March 31, after a California jury convicted him of lying to federal authorities about an illegal campaign donation from a foreign national.

Republican lawmakers gathered at a retreat in Florida this week to plot out strategy for this year's midterm elections.

Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry is facing growing pressure from congressional leaders and Nebraska’s GOP governor to resign after a California jury found him guilty of lying to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 campaign donation from a Nigerian billionaire.

Republican leaders in Congress are grappling with what to do with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is endorsing a primary challenger to GOP Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming.

The parents of San Francisco have spoken, and their message is echoing like a wake-up call across the country.

Democrats have muscled legislation through the House that they say positions the U.S. to better compete with China economically by strengthening the domestic semiconductor industry and shoring up strained supply chains.

Democrat Hillary Scholten says she will run for a newly drawn House seat in western Michigan, looking to seize the party’s best shot at representing Grand Rapids in Congress in decades.

The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to the proxy voting system that Democrats put in place in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Thursday saw a closed-door huddle by an embattled President Joe Biden with his own party’s senators, apparently for naught.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s refusal to provide information to a committee investigating the Capitol riot is deepening a standoff between the committee and GOP lawmakers.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is refusing a request by the House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection to submit to an interview and turn over records pertaining to the deadly riot.

The new top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says President Joe Biden’s administration needs to ramp up military and intelligence support for Ukraine.

President Joe Biden enters the midterm election year of 2022 determined to address what economists call a “supply” problem.

A year after the Jan. 6 attack, Congress is more deeply divided than ever, and it shows in how lawmakers are choosing to mark the day.

Beneath the glare of television cameras, it seemed hard not to see the Jan. 6 Capitol riot for what it was.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is planning televised hearings and a series of reports in the coming months to present its findings and bring its private interviews out into the open.

California Democrats appear to have come away with the advantage in a recasting of the state’s congressional districts.

The House has delivered its first formal response to Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's anti-Muslim remarks by passing a bill to tackle Islamophobia worldwide.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s appears to have settled on a strategy as a handful of Republican lawmakers stir outrage with violent, racist and sometimes Islamophobic comments: If you can’t police them, promote them.

U.S. leaders and military veterans are mourning the loss of former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, a World War II veteran and former Republican presidential candidate who served in Congress for 36 years.

The grind of legislating is treacherous for some, a sport for others, and rarely successful in the slow-moving Congress.

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy seized control of the House floor for more than eight hours overnight, preempting passage of President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill with a rambling speech full of vitriol.

The House has handed President Joe Biden a marquee victory.

Democrats have brushed aside monthslong divisions and are approaching House passage of their expansive social and environment bill.

Twenty years ago, when Kyrsten Sinema was a Green Party activist running for the Phoenix City Council, she likened the practice of raising campaign cash to “bribery.”.

In the past week, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted a video showing a character with his face killing a figure with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s face.

It was 2015 when Congress last approved a major renewal of federal highway and other transportation programs.