During a press conference Tuesday evening, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., answered the call to run for the House of Representatives' Speaker position to replace outgoing Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who is set to resign at the end of the month.
Republicans struggling to find a replacement for outgoing House Speaker John Boehner have their eyes set on Paul Ryan. But if the Wisconsin congressman and 2012 vice presidential nominee can't be convinced to take the job, the race could turn into a free-for-all, analysts predict.
Bill Flores, a three-term congressman from central Texas, on Monday announced that he was hoping to replace outgoing House Speaker John Boehner - which would make the 61-year-old second in the U.S. presidential line of succession.
Kevin McCarthy, the leading candidate to take over the House leadership from outgoing Speaker John Boehner, is already drawing fire from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced his bid to succeed Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, as Speaker of the House. With Boehner resigning, calls have reemerged to vote on comprehensive immigration reform, but what has been McCarthy’s immigration record?
Conservatives are not holding back their delight over John Boehner's announcement that he will resign from Congress and give up his speakership position at the end of October.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, representative for Ohio’s 8th Congressional District, announced his resignation from the Congress, and calls for immigration reform have further increased.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner announced on Friday that he will resign from Congress and give up his speakership position at the end of October.
The fact that John Boehner called him a "jackass" shows that "there's far too much" name-calling among politicians, Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz said on Monday in his first reaction to the House speaker's comments.
President Barack Obama, busy trying to engage a conversation about environmentalism in Alaska, has officially chaged the name of the nation's tallest mountain from Mt. McKinley to Denali. And the GOP is upset.
House Speaker John Boehner downplayed a concerted effort led by a member of his own party to remove him from his position of leadership is "no big deal" on Wednesday.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would restrict state's rights by banning them from requiring mandatory GMO labeling on food products. Get the details here.
In an interview with John Dickerson on CBS's "Face the Nation," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, discussed why the House of Representatives has not acted on immigration reform.
House Speaker John Boehner plans to make immigration reform a top priority, the top Republican told business executives in Dublin, Ireland, over the weekend.
The Obama administration announced Tuesday that the Department of Labor will propose a new rule that would extend overtime pay for up to five million American workers.
The U.S. Latino unemployment declined by 1-percentage point in comparison to May 2014, and economists have remained optimistic about the latest jobs report.
House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi negotiated and passed a bipartisan $200 billion Medicare bill that quietly increased funding for abstinence-only programs. However, ignorance bred in abstinence-only education could've contributed to the chlamydia outbreak among students in an abstinence-only West Texas high school.
President Obama and congressional lawmakers are praising Congress after they finally passed legislation to fund the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the 2015 fiscal quarter, expiring Sept. 30, the bill to have no adverse affect on the president's immigration executive actions despite conservative lawmakers' efforts to block its implementation.
