A proposed subcommittee to investigate “weaponization” of the federal government — a key demand of House conservatives who delivered Speaker Kevin McCarthy the gavel — would be given sweeping investigatory powers that include explicit authority to review “ongoing criminal investigations.”

Even for career-long observers of Congress, Friday night on the House floor was a sight to behold. The chamber descended into chaos when two lawmakers nearly came to fisticuffs — the frustration of four long days of failing to elect

When a motley crew of about a dozen House Republicans huddled in a first-floor Capitol suite three ballots into a speakership crisis, no one knew whether their colleagues would negotiate in good faith. But as Rep. Kelly Armstrong described it,

Kevin McCarthy’s speakership victory after a brutal four-day floor fight caps a 16-year ascent to power in the House – including a lengthy climb back to the gavel after conservatives torpedoed his run in 2015. In McCarthy’s telling, his story

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