Live blog: House speaker says universal school choice is a top priority, as session starts
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Republicans start 2025 with the smallest House majority since 1931
The GOP’s tiny majority in the House of Representatives could pose a challenge for Speaker Mike Johnson and test the ...
Speaker Mike Johnson Gives Update on Plans for Medicaid
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told Axios that Republicans are discussing work requirements as part of a potential Medicaid overhaul.
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Speaker Mike Johnson announces winners of the 2024 Congressional App Challenge
The winner will be invited to the House of Code, a copyright fee waiver and her app will be on display in the U.S. Capitol Building for a year.
Gingrich predicts Johnson will be Speaker for six years
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is predicting that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will remain in the top job for six years ...
Los Angeles burns, East Coast freezes and more of the week’s best photos
See 11 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.
Opening day of a new Congress signals future troubles
The opening day of the new Congress was marred by intra-party fratricide, with the Speaker of the House being elected after ...
Carter honored at a Capitol where his agenda was ‘ground to a halt’
Today’s lawmakers hailed the 39th president, but their predecessors made his four years in office a constant battle and ...
Jimmy Carter held the highest office in the land. But his faith made him a public servant
Analysis: Carter navigated the barbed wire of the politics of religion, Eric Garcia reports. In doing so, he ran his race and he kept his faith ...
Trump says it ‘doesn’t matter’ whether Republicans use one or two bills to pass his agenda
President-elect Donald Trump stressed in a meeting with the Senate GOP on Wednesday that he wants to pass his agenda as ...
Column: Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden and revisionist presidential history
Even Republicans, who have used President Carter to attack Democrats for nearly 50 years, have had to reckon with revisionism ...
Trump and Senate Republicans still divided on how to implement his agenda
President-elect Donald Trump is meeting with Senate Republicans to try to get lawmakers "on the same page" on how to advance some of his major policy initiatives.