Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, gave his farewell address Wednesday at the Library of Congress, touching on a mixed record of accomplishments as his party prepares to give up control of the House to Democrats next month.
Read morePolitically, states don’t get much more purple than Wisconsin. The fluidity of that red-to-blue gradient is about to be tested in the Nov. 6 midterm election as a seat long held but soon to be vacated by House Speaker Paul Ryan is up for grabs, along with the governorship.
Read moreAll eyes in Wisconsin’s primary election Tuesday will be on the race for retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan’s seat and Democrats’ fight to retake the governor’s office from two-term Republican Scott Walker.
Read moreThe Conservative Republican who spearheaded the effort to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Thursday he is tabling his efforts after having several meetings with Republican leadership.
Read moreA far-reaching Republican immigration bill is careening toward likely House rejection, a defeat that would be a telling rebuff of the leaders of a divided GOP. The party’s lawmakers are considering Plan B: Passing legislation by week’s end curbing the Trump administration’s contentious separating of migrant families.
Read moreThe House will vote next week on two Republican-written immigration bills, a top GOP aide said late Tuesday, as leaders sought to move past an election-year civil war they worry will wound the party’s prospects in November.
Read moreHouse Speaker Paul Ryan is agreeing with another senior House Republican who says there’s no evidence that the FBI planted a “spy” in President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Read moreSpeaker Paul Ryan mocked an effort by breakaway Republicans to force election-year votes on rival immigration proposals as a drive that would produce “show ponies,” not legislation the president would sign into law.
Read moreThe embattled chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives has won his job back just hours after sending a scalding letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan that accused a top Ryan staff aide of telling him “something like ‘maybe it’s time that we had a Chaplain that wasn’t a Catholic.'”
Read moreRepublican House Speaker Paul Ryan announced Wednesday he will not run for re-election, saying he wants to be more than a “weekend dad” before his children graduate high school.
Read moreCongress gave final approval Friday to a giant $1.3 trillion spending bill that ends the budget battles for now, but only after late obstacles skirted close to another shutdown as conservatives objected to big outlays on Democratic priorities at a time when Republicans control the House, Senate and White House.
Read moreHouse Speaker Paul Ryan is inviting French President Emmanuel Macron to address a joint meeting of Congress next month.
Read moreU.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that more needs to be done to challenge Iran, a message that was welcomed by his hosts in the United Arab Emirates, where he is leading a Congressional delegation.
Read moreRepublican House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday called for U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama to drop out of the special-election race, calling reports that the former judge had inappropriate sexual contact with teenage girls when he was in his 30s “credible.”
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President Donald Trump on Thursday took to Twitter to criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan for creating, what he described as a debt ceiling “mess” by refusing his advice.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan says special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, isn’t a biased partisan.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan is maintaining support for embattled House intelligence committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes.
Read morePresident Donald Trump asked House Speaker Paul Ryan not to hold Friday’s do-or-die vote on the Republican’s long-promised repeal and replacement of the federal health care law, conceding the GOP just didn’t have the votes.
Read moreGiving a run-down on what the GOP has in store for the next four years, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan wound down a busy week on Capitol Hill with an hour-long town hall Thursday.
Read morePresident Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Mike Pence gathered their respective parties on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning to plot strategy in the looming congressional fight over the federal health care law.
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