After spending the last 48 hours on life support, Kevin McCarthy’s bid for the speakership is seeing a potential revival. Following a rollercoaster of a day during which the California Republican failed three more times to secure the 218 votes

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is taking new steps to build a Senate campaign-in-waiting, signing on a pollster, interviewing paid media firms, and pulling in veterans from Sens. John Fetterman, Mark Kelly, and Raphael Warnock’s teams. Gallego’s most recent moves, first

Democratic senators were already bracing for a legislative slowdown over the next two years, but the last 48 hours of House GOP mayhem have lowered even their modest expectations. Just ask Dick Durbin, who’s served as the Democratic whip in

It was the second day of chaos on the floor of the House of Representatives when Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) took the previously unthinkable step of thumbing her nose at Donald Trump, the ex-president she otherwise venerates. “Let’s stop with

If not Kevin McCarthy, then who? It’s the all-consuming question that has started openly percolating among the House GOP, as McCarthy’s speaker bid stalls. So far, though, Justin Amash — a former congressman who switched from Republican to Independent in