House Speaker vote expected to be held Tuesday
The House has been without a speaker, who is second in line for the presidency, since Oct. 3, when Rep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted.
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The House has been without a speaker, who is second in line for the presidency, since Oct. 3, when Rep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted.
The House remains at a standstill as Majority Leader Steve Scalise struggles to collect the votes to be elected speaker. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion has the latest on the speakership fight.
Hours before a midnight deadline, Congress passed a short-term funding bill to keep the government running for 45 days.
Congress has only a handful of working days left to keep the government funded. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports on where efforts stand to avoid a shutdown.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she will run for reelection to another term in Congress as Democrats work to win back the majority in 2024.
A former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told House lawmakers that Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being threatened with contempt of Congress.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. worked to defend himself against accusations that he traffics in racist and hateful online conspiracy theories, testifying at a House hearing.
An effort by House Democrats to expel Rep. George Santos from Congress failed earlier this year.
The chair of the Federal Trade Commission has defended her aggressive legal strategy toward the country's biggest technology companies as she appeared before the House Judiciary Committee.
Rep. Adam Schiff is just the 25th House lawmaker to be censured in U.S. history.
A majority of Democrats and a majority of Republicans voted in favor of the Fiscal Responsibility Act.
House Freedom Caucus members are unhappy with the debt ceiling deal between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden.
California Rep. Eric Swalwell has reported former San Francisco 49ers fullback Bruce Miller to the Capitol Police after he says Miller threatened him on social media.
President Biden paid tribute to the heroes of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama.
A member of BART's board of directors announced Tuesday that she is running to take the congressional seat of Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, who is running for U.S. Senate.
U.S. Representatives Zoe Lofgren and Eric Swalwell tonight applauded President Biden's State of the Union address, that they said "focused on continuing to build a strong middle class, ending pervasive injustices, harnessing Americans' innovative spirit, and acting to curb climate change."
Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries at the US Capitol in Washington on Thursday evening.
He won after a surprising loss in the 14th round of voting.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of the holdouts against McCarthy, nominated former President Donald Trump on the 11th ballot.
As the stalemate continued, the House voted to adjourn until noon Thursday.
The bill provides an additional $45 billion in emergency assistance for Ukraine in its continued fight against Russia.
The bill would need to pass both chambers of Congress before the end of the year.
Long considered a rising star in the party, the 52-year-old Jeffries will make history as the first Black party leader in either chamber of Congress.
The House vote to impose a contract brokered by the White House but rejected by some workers was 290 to 137.
