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Republican and Democratic critics alike say the new rules will allow a small group of lawmakers to grind the legislative process to a halt.

The memory of the speakership fights leading up to the Civil War remind us that the consequences of dysfunction in the national government affect us all.

Texas Congressman Chip Roy gave a fiery response after former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called the 20 Republicans opposing Kevin McCarthy for speaker "blackmailers."

The stalemate over the Republican House speaker vote is more than just an embarrassment for Kevin McCarthy, who is now the first person in a century to muddle through multiple ballots.

Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich slammed Kevin McCarthy's opposition to becoming the next House speaker, accusing them of trying to 'sink' the party

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich attacked Republicans for opposing Kevin McCarthy's bid for Speaker on Monday, saying they were throwing the GOP conference into "chaos."

Rep. McCarthy is still likely to win the House Speaker role on January 3rd. However, managing the majority and achieving its legislative and political goals in another matter.

President Biden recently received praise — backhanded and qualified, but praise all the same — from one of the figures least likely to offer a favorable assessment of a Democratic administration: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she won't re-up as a House leader next year, even her adversaries acknowledged that hers was a remarkable era.

Some voters said they cast ballots for Republicans because they wanted to end single-party Democratic control, but history shows that doesn’t always lead to progress.

A Florida judge has ruled that former national security adviser Michael Flynn must testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta that’s looking into whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.

President Joe Biden will meet Monday with China's President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next week’s Group of 20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia.

President Joe Biden says he hopes to use an anticipated meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping to discuss growing tensions between Washington and Beijing over the self-ruled island of Taiwan, trade policies and Beijing’s relationship with Russia.

A judge has ordered former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta that's investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and Republican allies illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.

In 1994, the Republican Party successfully nationalized our congressional elections. In a strategy crafted and executed by Newt Gingrich, the GOP convinced voters to look first to the R, and

Wednesday was a day for sorting, sifting and framing of an expensive, exhaustive and highly negative midterm election campaign.

Republicans need to flip just five seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in order to take control of the chamber. The Valley’s rightward shift recently resulted in a huge win for the Republican Party when voters elected Flores this June to fill the unexpired term of Democrat Filemon Vela Jr., who resigned on March 31. “We made a little history this year with Mayra Flores getting elected,” McCarthy said. I promise you, we will introduce a bill to defund the 87,000 IRS agents, my friends,” Garcia said. “We don’t need 87,000 IRS agents, my friends, we need 87,000 Border Patrol agents, my friends,” she said, before similarly suggesting 87,000 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, or 87,000 school security guards.

First lady Jill Biden and U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy were in Texas Sunday to help members of their respective parties energize voters before Election Day.

Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich joined 'Hannity' to analyze the state of the 2022 Midterm Elections, on Fox News.

Top Republican leaders will be visiting McAllen on Sunday to stump for the three Republican congressional candidates running to represent the Rio Grande Valley. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel will be attending a rally here hoping to inspire more people to vote in the midterm elections, which will be held Tuesday. The rally will feature Monica De La Cruz, the candidate for Texas’ District 15; Cassy Gacia, candidate for District 28; and U.S. Rep. Mayra Flores who is seeking a full term as the representative for District 34. The event will be held Sunday at the Radisson Hotel McAllen Airport, located at 2721 S. 10th Street. It is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m and end at 6:30 p.m.

Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich joined 'America's Newsroom' on Tuesday to weigh in on key governor's races in Georgia and New York.

Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, is trying to avoid having to testify before a Georgia special grand jury that’s investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the state’s 2020 election.

Newt Gingrich joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss why he is predicting the "biggest Republican win since 1920" in the midterm elections.

Eager Republican volunteers are knocking on doors in Georgia, trying to persuade reluctant conservatives and supporters of Donald Trump to register to vote in next month’s midterm elections.

David French on how Newt Gingrich first exposed the schism that has since transformed the GOP

Republicans like to blame everyone else for how they flocked to Donald Trump in 2016. But the only ones to blame are themselves.

Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich reacted to the news Tulsi Gabbard is leaving the Democratic Party, calling her an 'independent maverick' on 'Fox & Friends.'

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene once was shunned as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric.

A Georgia prosecutor filed paperwork seeking to compel testimony from a new batch of Trump allies, including former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Each of the petitions filed Friday seeks to have the potential witnesses appear in November after the election.

The Georgia prosecutor investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election has filed paperwork seeking to compel testimony from a new batch of Trump allies.

The former House speaker offered up a bizarre defense of the Senate candidate.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich reacts as far-left crime policy is at the center of Democrat senate candidates' records on 'Hannity.'

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

Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich slammed the Biden White House for living in a 'fantasy world' as Americans battle crime and inflation ahead of midterms

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.'

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

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich insulted a Capitol Hill reporter after the journalist asked him to comment on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. “What do you think about the January 6 committee,” Scott Wong, a reporter for NBC News who previously worked at The Hill, asked…

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

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

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.

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.

"We have a lot of information that we have collected over the last year that we've not shown the public," committee chair Thompson said earlier this week.

President Joe Biden is confronting difficult issues as he travels to New York this week for the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.

Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich revealed the full extent of the nationwide crime wave while the southern border crisis continues on "The Ingraham Angle."

Georgia's Republican Party once relied on votes in Atlanta's close-in suburbs, but today the GOP increasingly relies on the mountains of north Georgia for its votes.

In an interview with "Face the Nation," Raskin said the panel wants to speak with "anyone who has relevant evidence."

The Jan. 6 investigatory panel is seeking information from Newt Gingrich about his communications with senior advisers to then-President Trump in the days leading up to the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeking information from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich about his communications with senior advisers to then-President Donald Trump in the days leading up to the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Gift Article ShareThe House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection issued a request to interview former House speaker Newt Gingrich on Thursday. The committee has been particularly interested in digging deeper into the role the Secret Service played around Jan. 6, amid suspicions about the agency’s transparency with congressional investigators. Hutchinson testified under oath that those details were conveyed to her by Anthony Ornato, a Secret Service agent who also served as Trump’s deputy chief of staff. “We are not going to close down the committee until the final day,” one aide said. The committee was ultimately unable to agree on a third-party writer to draft the report, in part due to concerns about partisan perceptions.

How has Congress changed in the last four decades.

Dana Milbank identifies Gingrich as the culprit who began steering the GOP away from Reagan and toward Trump.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says China will not be able to isolate Taiwan by preventing U.S. officials from traveling there.

After infuriating China over her trip to Taiwan, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has met South Korean political leaders in Seoul.

U_S_ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi concluded her visit to Taiwan with a pledge that the American commitment to democracy on the self-governing island and elsewhere “remains ironclad.”.

Newt Gingrich was the last U.S. House speaker to visit Taiwan in 1997. China's threats are nothing new, he says.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan.

The White House is criticizing Beijing’s rhetoric over an expected visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan and vowing the United States “will not take the bait or engage in saber rattling."

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has confirmed she will visit four Asian countries this week but made no mention of a possible stop in Taiwan that has riled Beijing, which claims the island as its own territory.

The crisis sparked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan misses a key point, experts say: that the real focus should be on how the United States and China manage their differences so the risks of confrontation don’t spiral out of control.

President Xi Jinping warned against meddling in China’s dealings with Taiwan during a phone call with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has yet to confirm whether she might visit the island, but Beijing is threatening retaliation if she does.

In 1997, Beijing grumbled but swallowed its irritation when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan.

Beijing grumbled but swallowed its irritation in 1997 when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by the mainland’s ruling Communist Party as its own territory. China had other priorities. President Jiang Zemin’s government was preparing to celebrate Hong Kong’s return and wanted to lock in Beijing’s emergence from diplomatic isolation after its 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a political career being tough on China.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched her political career being tough on China -- a new congresswoman who dared to unfurl a pro-democracy banner in Beijing's Tiananmen Square during a 1991 visit with other U.S. lawmakers shortly after the student massacre. More than 30 years later, her interest in traveling to Taiwan presents a powerful diplomatic capstone. It has also contributed to tensions at the highest levels in Washington and Beijing among officials who worry a trip could prove provocative.

A possible trip to Taiwan by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has prompted China's warning of a severe response.

U.S. President Joe Biden is planning to speak with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in four months, with a wide range of bilateral and international issues on the table.

U.S. President Joe Biden plans to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, according to a U.S. official.

The intensifying rivalry between former President Donald Trump and his once fiercely loyal vice president, Mike Pence, has been put on stark display in Washington.

An increasing number of Republican officials are defending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her reported trip to Taiwan.

President Joe Biden says that U.S. military officials believe it’s “not a good idea” for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan at the moment.

China says it will take “resolute and strong measures" should the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi proceed with reported plans to visit Taiwan.

Placeholder while article actions loadRep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) knew he had a problem when Newt Gingrich showed up at the House GOP retreat in Florida in March. Republicans gained more than 10 House seats in the 2020 elections even as Joe Biden won the presidential popular vote by more than 7 million. “He can use whatever numbers he wants to use with that big brain,” Emmer recalled telling his colleagues. According to Emmer, the NRCC has run seven polls of the most competitive districts and found that independent voters and GOP voters have the same priorities: inflation, the economy and crime. If about 35,000 votes had broken the other way in five races, Emmer would have delivered the majority.

For the low price of $4 billion a year, we can shift the burden of stopping mass shooters onto teachers.

"In retrospect, it's hard to understand David's campaign, and it's certainly not the campaign those of us who were for him expected," Gingrich told The New York Times of Perdue's race.

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.

Reps. Lucy McBath and Carolyn Bourdeaux flipped two longtime Republican congressional districts in Atlanta’s northern suburbs with a common strategy of appealing to voters repelled by then-President Donald Trump’s divisive politics.

Santorum's campaigns join Newt Gingrich's 2012 campaign among top presidential committee deadbeats.

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

Republican lawmakers gathered at a retreat in Florida this week to plot out strategy for this year's midterm elections.

Ted Cruz checked his Twitter mentions and a little bit of our democracy died

No presidential campaign from any election cycle owes creditors more money than the former House speaker, who ran for president in 2012.

The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has issued subpoenas to two Republican strategists and a Trump administration official regarding their involvement in the planning and preparation of one of the rallies that preceded the deadly attack.

Politicians and family members are remembering Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson's ability to build consensus and win friends.

For a decade ending last December, ArtPlace America sprinkled $150 million across the nation, backing a kaleidoscope of projects.

Bob Dole’s frequent scowl concealed a dry, often caustic wit.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is likely to face a prominent challenger for the 2022 Republican primary for governor, former Sen. David Perdue.

Americans are remembering Bob Dole, a man who defied the odds in war, only to fall short of his ultimate goal in politics.

President Joe Biden and leading Democratic lawmakers, including Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, have been fighting to make permanent a child tax credit that would give families at least $300 a month per child.

Republicans are fighting to seize control of Congress.

Republican leaders insist that purging Trump critic Liz Cheney from their ranks was necessary to unify the party ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is embroiled in a federal sex trafficking investigation, has denied wrongdoing and refused to resign — or even lay low — amid mounting political pressure.

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to an Iranian exile group and a troll farm in Albania.

The man behind the effort to remove California Gov. Gavin Newsom from office is a retired county sheriff's sergeant who grew frustrated in 2019 with the governor's policies.

Team Brownsville, a humanitarian group, is helping the migrants reach their final destination in the U.S. A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive. Still, the encounters of both unaccompanied minors and families remain lower than at various points during the Trump administration, including in spring 2019. They deride the policies Trump implemented to deter asylum as cruel and inhumane and an abdication of the country’s humanitarian responsibilities. "The Trump administration did everything in their power for four years to make the already broken immigration system as cumbersome and ineffective as possible. ... You leave yourself nowhere to go.”Ad“They’re kind of stuck in a corner,” agreed Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies think tank, which advocates on behalf of more restrictive immigration policies.