Past attempts — including as far back as 1914 — to establish citizen-led initiatives in Wisconsin failed. No new states have ...

NPR's Michel Martin asks Republican strategist Rina Shah what the outcome of the House Speaker vote means for Republican control of Washington.

Republicans are set to take control of the U.S. Senate on Friday, and with that change, a major Texas political figure is ...

Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., was reelected House speaker on Jan. 3., receiving the bare minimum, 218 votes. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., was selected by his Republican colleagues as the Senate’s new majority ...

On Jan. 3, the new Congress — the 119th — officially began its duties. Once Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Jan. 20, ...

Connie Pillich’s first day on the job as Hamilton County’s top prosecutor was a snow day. With the courthouse closed on Monday, she swore in her assistant prosecutors on Tuesday.

“It would be up to the states to decide who allocates that funding. It probably varies from state to state. It could be the ...

But during an extended delay in which the House clerk held open the vote — and during which Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer conceded that he expected a second ballot — GOP leadership scrambled to ...

Trump offered an unequivocal endorsement of Johnson on his Truth Social network on Friday, implying that a failure to return ...

The 119th Congress convenes Friday with a huge shift of power in Washington as the GOP takes control of both chambers ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration.

The 119th Congress is convening for the first time and House Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting for his political life — again ...

He is losing two reliable Republican votes, Representatives Elise Stefanik of New York and Michael Waltz of Florida, who are leaving the House to work in the Trump administration, meaning he will ...