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The Senate is wasting time passing millions of dollars in foreign aid without border security measures, House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested.

Mike Johnson told Breitbart News exclusively that Joe Biden’s speech blaming Donald Trump for the border crisis was “offensive.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that former President Donald Trump “is not calling the shots” for the House.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that House Republicans were criticizing the border deal because they are “following orders” from former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Greg Pence (R-IN), brother of former Vice President Mike Pence, announced on Tuesday that he will not seek reelection.

A new report details how the swampiest, most establishment members of Congress have the highest average median incomes in their districts.

The House investigated a second gay sex scandal as Washington, DC, reels from the initial graphic pornographic video filmed by a Senate aide.

The House has censured Rep. Jamaal Bowman, 214-191, weeks after he pleaded guilty to pulling a fire alarm in a government building, allegedly to delay a critical government funding vote.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), who served as speaker pro tempore in October, said Tuesday he will not seek an 11th term in Congress. 

The lock to former Rep. George Santos’s (R-NY) office in the Longworth building in Washington, DC, was changed soon after he was expelled from Congress on Friday. 

Many Republicans are expressing deep concern over a “dangerous precedent” being set by former Rep. George Santos’s (R-NY) expulsion.

Double standard: George Santos has not been convicted of wrongdoing, but Jamaal Bowman recently pled guilty to pulling a fire alarm.

The House of Representatives will vote on Friday, December 1, on whether or not to expel embattled Rep. George Santos (R-NY).

The House Ethics committee voted against opening an investigation into Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) on Wednesday for falsely pulling a fire alarm in a congressional office building in September.

The Investigative Subcommittee (ISC) report on Rep. George Santos (R-NY) released by the House Ethics Committee Thursday found that the Santos campaign used donations for botox treatments, OnlyFans, and lodging in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. The report states that

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Republicans are currently a “political dumpster fire” trying to do things voters do not think is important.

The House has approved a bill to reduce Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s salary to just $1 after his repeated failures.

The House of Representatives Thursday evening passed legislation to send $14.3 billion in emergency aid to Israel and cut $14.3 billion from IRS funding, though Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has said the upper chamber will not take the bill up. 

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” with newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in the position, former President Donald Trump “cemented his hold over the Republican Party.”

Representative Steve Womack (R-AK) said Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that while attempting to choose a House Speaker, his Republican colleagues were “peeing on the electric fence.”

Former Speaker McCarthy nominated Speaker-Designate Jim Jordan for the speaker’s gavel Friday, emphasizing he is an “effective legislator.”

The House of Representatives will meet again Friday morning for another round of voting for a new Speaker of the House.

Arizona Republican Abe Hamadeh is launching a bid for U.S. Congress in Arizona’s Eighth Congressional District as Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) announced she would not seek another term on Tuesday. 

Speaker-Designate Jim Jordan is calling on House Republicans to “stop attacking each other” as infighting followed Tuesday’s speaker vote.

The House of Representatives will meet on Wednesday, October 18, to vote again for a new Speaker of the House.

A handful of establishment Republicans blocked Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) from locking down the speakership on Tuesday, so Jordan and the vast majority of House Republicans are set to try again on Wednesday.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) is attempting to undermine Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) bid for the Speakership gavel after voting for him on the first ballot, sources familiar with the matter have confirmed to Breitbart News. 

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on a new speaker on Tuesday, October 17, with Rep. Jim Jordan as the Republican nominee.

House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) sees the House Speaker’s gavel within reach, as the House GOP conference nominee for the speakership heads to the floor shortly after noon on Tuesday in an attempt to unify the GOP conference and end the chaos that started two weeks ago when now former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the position.

Fourteen more House Republicans publicly backed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as Speaker-designate hours before a potential vote for Speaker.

Grassroots conservatives nationwide are rallying behind Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as he seeks to lock down the speakership in a Tuesday afternoon floor vote, with activists “melting” phone lines with respectful pleas to GOP members of Congress to unify and end the conference’s divisions by finally electing Jordan as Speaker of the House.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer has formally ruled out a Speakership bid as House Republicans slowly but surely rally around Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the GOP conference nominee for Speaker, in the drawn out Speakership fight, as it enters its third week.

Rep. Steve Scalise won the Republican nomination for Speaker of the House but failed to garner enough support to win on the House floor.

Rep. Pete Aguilar said that Rep. Steve Scalise is someone Democrats can talk to, but Rep. Jim Jordan “is dangerous for our democracy.”

Kevin McCarthy signaled that he is open to being a consensus House Speaker candidate in the event that Republicans cannot pick a new leader.

Several of the top leaders in the conservative movement endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for House Speaker, praising his voting record and leadership of the House Freedom Caucus, House Judiciary Committee, and House Weaponization Committee.