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Speaker Mike Johnson talks to President-elect Donald Trump as they attend the 125th Army-Navy football game in Landover, Md. on Dec. 14. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Protracted GOP speaker fight could complicate Electoral College count

Scholars say House has options to carry out constitutional duty without a speaker

By John T. Bennett
Posted December 24, 2024 at 12:03pm

Matt Gaetz, pictured here outside the Capitol in August, resigned from the House last month.

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Bombshell report finds evidence Gaetz had sex with minor, paid for sex and took drugs while in Congress

By Justin Papp
Posted December 23, 2024 at 1:29pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., struggled to pass a stopgap funding measure that alienated his party's right flank.

Podcasts

Political fallout over spending

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 23, 2024 at 1:27pm
Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H., is leaving the House but said she will keep up her efforts to elect new Democrats, particularly women. “Our party needs to reflect on how it felt to an entire generation of younger people that … the face of our party has been octogenarians,” she says.

Heard on the Hill

Annie Kuster wants to lead by example. That’s why she’s retiring from Congress

By Justin Papp
Posted December 23, 2024 at 8:49am
Biden also leaves a legacy of diversifying the federal bench.

Biden edges out Trump’s first-term federal judicial confirmations

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted December 23, 2024 at 6:43am
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

No shutdown: Biden signs three-month stopgap funding bill

By David Lerman, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 20, 2024 at 7:00pm, Updated December 22, 2024 at 9:15pm
The specter of a government shutdown harshes everyone’s holiday buzz in this week’s Congressional Hits and Misses.

Shutdown and out — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted December 20, 2024 at 4:18pm
Sen. Debbie Stabenow looks back on her time on Capitol Hill, from her early years in the House to holding the No. 3 spot in Democratic Senate leadership.

Why retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow still believes in the ‘win-win’

By Jim Saksa
Posted December 20, 2024 at 3:14pm
From left, Speaker Mike Johnson, President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect JD Vance and former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard are seen at the Army-Navy football game in Landover, Md., on Dec. 14.

Why Trump’s boast of newly found friends could prove fleeting

By John T. Bennett
Posted December 20, 2024 at 12:33pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with the media in the Capitol on Thursday before a vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government.

Trump-endorsed stopgap funding plan goes down to defeat

By Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted December 19, 2024 at 7:24pm, Updated at 8:16pm
Kansas Republican Rep. Jake LaTurner is in his final weeks in Congress after serving two terms.

‘We’re not going to be in this season forever,’ says outgoing Rep. Jake LaTurner 

By Jim Saksa
Posted December 19, 2024 at 5:23pm
A Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed bullet train passes through the Shiodome district of Tokyo on January 21, 2024.

All aboard: High-speed rail aims to win over reluctant Republicans

By Valerie Yurk
Posted December 19, 2024 at 2:23pm
“If you want to get things done, the best way to get to do it is with Democrats and Republicans working together,” said Sen. Tom Carper, who is leaving the Senate at the end of this term.

Retiring Sen. Tom Carper talks bipartisanship and endorphins

By Jim Saksa
Posted December 19, 2024 at 12:34pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has a thin margin of error now and in the coming 119th Congress.

The top political stories, of next year

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted December 19, 2024 at 10:58am
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance and their families celebrate on stage at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on the last night of the Republican National Convention on July 18.

News flashes: Roll Call’s best photos of the year, Part 2

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 19, 2024 at 6:00am
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump scrambles stopgap bill as GOP leaders mull next moves

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted December 18, 2024 at 6:17pm, Updated at 7:32pm
Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, said Congress should not be “sneaking new member perks into must-pass legislation.”

Pay raise in stopgap funding bill a sticking point for some members

By Justin Papp
Posted December 18, 2024 at 4:19pm, Updated at 6:58pm
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, here at a news conference at the Capitol last week, is up for reelection in 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

GOP senators on 2026 ballot walk a fine line on Trump loyalty

By Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted December 18, 2024 at 6:20pm
The Supreme Court will be hearing another case related to abortion, this time over whether South Carolina can block Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds because it provides abortion care.

Supreme Court to hear case over Planned Parenthood Medicaid funding

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 18, 2024 at 5:13pm
From left, former Reps. Kai Kahele of Hawaii and Jerry McNerney and Laura Richardson of California were elected to state office this year.

More former members of Congress win election for lower office this year

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted December 18, 2024 at 4:32pm
Former Rep. David Rivera, R-Fla., served in the House for one term from 2011 to 2013. The Justice Department announced six federal charges against him Wednesday.

DOJ indicts former Florida Rep. David Rivera

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 18, 2024 at 4:22pm
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently had a fall, leaves a Republican conference lunch meeting Tuesday with the help of an aide.

How McConnell could remain a thorn in Trump’s side next Congress

By John T. Bennett
Posted December 18, 2024 at 2:50pm
For staffers on Capitol Hill, the usual post-election shuffle is in full swing. Meanwhile, the wider hiring landscape in official Washington is uncertain. Above, reporters and aides are seen at the Capitol in March.

Hanging over the usual post-election staff shuffle? Trump’s purge threat

By Jim Saksa
Posted December 18, 2024 at 1:34pm
Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok, leaves a meeting in Sen. John Fetterman’s office in March, one month before Congress enacted the sale or ban.

Supreme Court agrees to hear dispute over TikTok divestiture law

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 18, 2024 at 12:22pm
Virginia Rep. Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., seen here at a news conference in Washington in 2020, is retiring after being diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy.

Wexton delivers historic final House speech with assistive device

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted December 18, 2024 at 8:58am
Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., speaks during a news conference in the Capitol on March 22, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump risks legal clashes in plans to not spend appropriations

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 12, 2024 at 5:15pm, Updated December 17, 2024 at 4:41pm
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., led a reinvestigation of the Capitol attack as chair of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee. Above, he talks to reporters at the Capitol on Dec. 10.

Rep. Loudermilk targets Liz Cheney, calls for more probes of Jan. 6

By Justin Papp
Posted December 17, 2024 at 3:54pm
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew prepares to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

TikTok asks justices to intervene in divestiture law fight

By Michael Macagnone
Posted December 16, 2024 at 5:49pm, Updated at 6:05pm
An eagle emblem sits atop a flag pole in a Dirksen Senate Office Building hallway as workers renovate a nearby room. The bald eagle has held symbolic significance for centuries.

Bill naming bald eagle national bird on way to White House

By Mike Magner
Posted December 16, 2024 at 5:27pm
Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, poses in front of Grant Wood's "American Gothic" at the Renwick Museum in Washington in 2006. Wood painted much in Leach's district. Leach, who died Dec. 11, went on to head the National Endowment for the Humanities after leaving Congress.

Former Rep. Jim Leach, Iowa iconoclast, dies at 82

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 16, 2024 at 5:02pm
President-elect Donald Trump arrives Monday for a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, alongside SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son.

Trump uses wide-ranging news conference to pin Syria rebellion on Turkish leader

By John T. Bennett
Posted December 16, 2024 at 3:56pm
Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., stepped down as Freedom Caucus chair in September after losing his primary in Virginia’s 5th District. “We’re pulling the conference to the right, no question,” he says.

Good says goodbye: ‘This Congress should have done even less’

By Jim Saksa
Posted December 16, 2024 at 3:21pm
Birds fly across the White House grounds on Dec. 10. Tipsters have reported drone sightings over New Jersey and other states recently. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Mystery drones over NJ: Biden officials say ‘no evidence’ of ill intent despite few answers

By John T. Bennett
Posted December 16, 2024 at 12:21pm
Sen. Joe Manchin III, I-W.Va., left, who retired this year, and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who lost reelection, have been among the senators offering farewell remarks in recent weeks.

So long, farewell: Departing senators say goodbye to speaking from the floor

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted December 16, 2024 at 10:30am