KEVIN MCCARTHY

Republicans wanted to invoke memories of their groundbreaking “Contract with America” but wound up emphasizing how far they’ve drifted from a willingness to lay out a bold new direction.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy last month unveiled the Commitment to America, a summary of the agenda for what he hopes will be a new Republican majority in 2023. The

The enthusiasm for Donald Trump’s brand of nationalist populism has cut into traditional Democratic strongholds in places such as Monongahela in western Pennsylvania.

The House minority leadership’s latest pledge is an attempt to nationalize an election that’s already been nationalized.

Biden, ramping up rhetoric on Social Security and Medicare, targets a GOP trio: Sens. Rick Scott and Ron Johnson and would-be Speaker Kevin McCarthy

Allies spent millions in a sometimes secretive effort to weed out candidates who could cause the House leader trouble or jeopardize GOP victories in November.

NBC News contributor Jen Psaki said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that the Democratic Party knows "they will lose" if the midterms are a referendum on Joe Biden.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy provided a detailed explanation of House Republicans' "Commitment to America" plan Sunday on "Life, Liberty & Levin."

Liz Cheney told a crowd at the Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday that she is unsure whether she would prefer for Democrats to hold their majority in the House.

House Republicans, led by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy unveiled the 'Commitment to America' on Friday. It has four main pillars that are critical.

House minority leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy unveiled the contents of the "Commitment to America" plan ahead of the upcoming midterm elections on "Hannity."

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich praised Kevin McCarthy's leadership for piecing a GOP 'Commitment to America' plan together on Friday's 'Hannity.'

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans had harsh words for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after she attacked their Commitment to America pledge.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans had harsh words for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after she attacked their Commitment to America pledge.

President Biden spoke at a Democratic National Committee event on Friday, responding to House Republicans' "Commitment to America" agenda revealed Thursday.

Democrats say the "true details" of the Republican agenda are "frightening."

The House GOP released their policy pitch for what they want to do if they win Congress, breaking with McConnell and Senate Republicans.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the Republican plan is a commitment for governing, not just campaigning ahead of the midterm elections in November.

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy launch House Republicans' "Commitment to America" governing agenda at an event in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy on the details of the Republicans' 'Commitment to America' plan which is designed to usher in a 'new direction' if elected in November.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is rolling out his party's Trump-like midterm election agenda.

Recent polls suggest GOP gains in the House could be smaller than previously expected — a worry for lawmakers who believe a new class of Trump allies could embolden the ultraconservative and rebellious House Freedom Caucus.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is rolling out his party's Trump-like midterm election agenda.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Friday directly confronted President Joe Biden and the party in power, choosing battleground Pennsylvania to unveil a midterm election agenda with sweeping Trump-like promises despite the House GOP’s sometimes spotty record of delivering and governing in Congress. McCarthy, who is poised to seize the speaker’s gavel if Republicans win control of the House in the fall, hopes to replicate the strategy that Speaker Newt Gingrich used to spark voter enthusiasm and sweep House control in a 1994 landslide.

House Democrats have pushed through a long-sought policing and public safety package after overcoming internal differences on legislation they plan to make central to their election-year pitch.

Big on ideas but short on policy specifics, the agenda keeps with a tradition established with 1994's "Contract with America" where the minority party releases their priorities ahead of Election Day.

House Republicans released many of the details of their "Commitment to America" plan, which they hope to use as a campaign platform and governing agenda.

House Republicans say inflation is the top issue facing their constituents right now. The GOP "Commitment to America' addresses that, lawmakers told Fox News.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joins "Jesse Watters Primetime" to break down President Biden's latest comments on inflation.

The Biden administration has dismantled every tool the U.S. has to stop the flow of illegal aliens across the border. It should be Leader McCarthy's highest priority in the new Congress.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) in a new interview predicts that GOP lawmakers will demand a vote to impeach President Biden “every week” if Republicans take control of the House in the midterms. Kinzinger, a frequent critic of former President Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill, compared previous efforts by congressional Republicans to what he…

One session held earlier this summer for House GOP attorneys, titled “Oversight Education Series: Investigations 101,” laid out strategies for how such probes should be run. The House Freedom Caucus is already trying to lessen the role House GOP leadership plays in picking the powerful committee chairs. House Republicans have also intensified probes into Hunter Biden, who is being investigated by the FBI over whether he properly reported income from his business dealings. AdvertisementLong a target for the right, the renewed scrutiny of Hunter Biden is viewed as a political boon for the House GOP conference — especially ahead of November midterms. “The House Oversight Committee has expansive oversight authority under House rules,” a Republican Oversight Committee aide said in response to Gaetz’s comments.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer reportedly declared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will lose the House to Republicans come November. He says Democrats will likely hold the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer reportedly declared Speaker Nancy Pelosi will lose the House to Republicans come November. He says Democrats will likely hold the Senate.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy explained how the GOP will stand up for the rights of parents to access their kids' curriculum on "The Ingraham Angle."

Now comes the reckoning in New Hampshire — where all three congressional races feature vulnerable Democrats — and beyond for Republicans.

Normally, political parties make changes in response to election setbacks. Not anymore.

The House Jan. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection by the end of the year.

The Republican Party’s hopes for a red wave this November dimmed on flagging fundraising and an emphasis on inflation that’s lost some of its potency.

House GOP leaders are hoping the midterm agenda scheduled for release September 19 will be the vibe shift they need to cruise to victory in November.

House GOP leaders are hoping the midterm agenda scheduled for release September 19 will be the vibe shift they need to cruise to victory in November.

Fox News figures have been freaking out over the word, but have no problem using it themselves.

Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor is suing the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, contesting its legal ability to force him to answer questions about it.

The prospect of Pelosi's departure has some considering the power vacuum she would leave, and what it would mean for California's influence in D.C.

Holding little back, President Joe Biden is sounding an alarm about what he views as extremist threats to the nation’s democracy from what he views as the evil force of Trumpism.

How has Congress changed in the last four decades.

"We have no leaders, and no wonder our base basically believes everything that Donald Trump says," Kinzinger said Sunday.

President Joe Biden calls out House Republicans who criticized student loan forgiveness.

Sephora Inc. has settled a lawsuit claiming the company sold customer information without proper notice in violation of the California’s landmark consumer privacy law.

This could throw more cold water on his relationship with the former president.

Cheney said on ABC News that McCarthy has "demonstrated a total lack of understanding of the significance and the importance of the role of Speaker."

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's office defended the representative's leadership after outgoing Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said McCarthy was unfit for the role.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has directed the IRS to develop a plan within six months outlining how the tax agency will modernize its technology, customer service and hiring.

Apparently the House Republican leader forgot the country was being ravaged in 2020 by COVID-19 before vaccines were available.

Since the search at Trump’s property, Republicans have directed their vitriol at the FBI and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

No, the bill boosting funding for the IRS will not mean 87,000 new agents or a surge in audits of middle-class Americans.

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler conceded her race in Washington state's top two primary for the 3rd Congressional District.

The FBI’s unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence is ricocheting around government, politics and a polarized country.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) promised on Monday that if Republicans take back the House after November’s midterm elections, he will have them investigate the Department of Justice, singling out Attorney General Merrick Garland to “clear your calendar.” “I’ve seen enough. The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” McCarthy…

The wealthy New York enclave of the Hamptons is seeing over a dozen political fundraisers this month as the November midterms approach.

The money that Democrats like to invest in clean power is largely spent in Republican districts.

Republicans Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas led the Senate challenge on Jan. 6, 2021, to Joe Biden's victory.

The U.S. Forest Service says it will take emergency action soon to save giant sequoias by speeding up projects to clear underbrush to protect the world’s largest trees from the increasing threat of wildfires.

A funeral service was held Monday afternoon for the last of seven people killed by a gunman at an Independence Day parade, as family and friends gathered in suburban Chicago to remember Kevin McCarthy.

Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune has became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

It would have been something never quite seen in America.

In the midst of the chaos of a Chicago-area parade massacre, a woman walked up to Greg Ring and handed him a 2-year-old boy, covered in blood.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn national protections for abortion has set off a contest between Democratic and Republican lawmakers over whose policies would do more to help vulnerable mothers and children.

Many observers expected the Jan. 6 committee hearings would be nothing more than reruns, but they've proven much more.

The House Jan. 6 committee began its work under deep political skepticism.

The House has given final approval to legislation to allow around-the-clock security protection for families of Supreme Court justices.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will hold the first in a series of hearings laying out its findings on Thursday night.

Members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection are holding their first prime-time hearing to share what they have uncovered about then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Most every Republican lawmaker expressed outrage in the days after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is making it clear that he will likely defy a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

The House’s top law enforcement official says members of Congress should be barred from carrying firearms anywhere in the Capitol or its surrounding office buildings and grounds.

One of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress was facing his toughest primary challenge yet in Tuesday's runoff, while a staunch gun safety advocate ousted her House colleague in a fierce member-on-member congressional primary in suburban Atlanta.

The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn had a conflict of interest in a cryptocurrency he promoted and engaged in an improper relationship with a member of his staff.

Congress has bestowed its highest honor on merchant mariners who fought in World War II, almost eight decades after the conflict in which more than 8,000 of them were killed.

House investigators are unlikely to call former President Donald Trump to testify about his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

House investigators say they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection.

Text messages and testimony released by the House Jan. 6 panel shows the deep involvement of some House Republicans in President Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has assured colleagues he never asked then-President Donald Trump to resign over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol is redoubling its efforts to have GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy appear for an interview.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is downplaying secretly recorded remarks he made about Donald Trump shortly after last year’s attack on the Capitol.

U.S. Rep. Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) will be leading a congressional delegation to Eagle Pass on Monday for a visit to the southern border.

A GOP Congressional Delegation will tour the border and meet with residents in Eagle Pass on Monday. A small business owner says his voice has not been included in the conversation.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is slamming Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a “liar and a traitor” over recordings that show the House Republican leader, despite his denials, placing responsibility on Donald Trump for the Capitol riot and suggesting Trump should resign.

The next House speaker could very well hail from California, but if Republicans take control, that leader won't come from the part of the state represented by the current speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection he'd urge then-President Donald Trump to resign.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy had a “positive” call with Donald Trump, despite the release of an audio recording critical of the former president shortly after the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

Just seven Republicans, along with most Democrats, used remote voting in the House when voting-from-somewhere-else was first allowed two years ago as the pandemic erupted.

The House has voted to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress over their monthslong refusal to comply with subpoenas from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill that President Joe Biden signed recently.

The ban on asylum-seekers at the U.

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has endorsed a state legislator over U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn in the upcoming Republican primary.

Piecing together the activities of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, is no easy task.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has unveiled a new policy platform for Republicans ahead of this year’s midterm elections.