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November 13, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump Gets Ultimate Power As Republicans Win House Control
Republicans now control both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
November 12, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Republicans Are on the Brink of Massive Power—and Already in Disarray
House Republicans can’t even agree on Mike Johnson anymore.
November 7, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Democrats Flip Key New York Seats as They Battle for House Control
New York Democrats have claimed three House seats they lost in the 2022 midterms.
November 6, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The South Will Send Its First Openly LGBTQ Politician to Congress
Julie Johnson has been elected to the House of Representatives.
November 6, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Democrats Flip Key New York Seat in Possible Sign for House Control
Republican Representative Brandon Williams has lost his seat.
May 7, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Latest Way Kicking Kevin McCarthy Out Has Backfired on Republicans
Turns out, Mike Johnson is not nearly as good at fundraising.
May 1, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
House Republicans Suffer Major Loss as They Hurtle Toward More Chaos
A special election in New York has narrowed the party’s already thin House majority.
April 23, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Mike Johnson Steps Smack Into a Major House Intra-GOP Foodfight
Republicans are fighting after one representative called some of his colleagues “scumbags.”
January 17, 2011
E.J. Dionne Jr.
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