The House Republican majority just got reduced to a perilously slim one-vote margin thanks to a Democrat's victory in Texas over the weekend. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., swore in newly minted Rep.

A major demographic shift is underway in the United States. White births in the country have fallen below 50% for the first time ever. That's among the findings in a new study published Friday by ...

WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) sensed trouble. The GOP-led House was about to pass its final tranche of spending bills, including one providing money for border enforcement, a big ...

WASHINGTON — As the slim House Republican majority hangs on a razor’s edge, lawmakers are getting a stern warning from party leadership: You should be absent only for matters of life and death. That ...

ANALYSIS — Even with former Rep. Mary Peltola’s candidacy in Alaska, Senate Democrats still have a difficult path to the majority in November. The fact that Democrats may need to rely on Alaska — a ...

Unexpected vacancies have whittled the G.O.P.’s edge to just a couple of votes, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson with almost no margin for leading the chamber. By Ashley Wu and Annie Karni A surprise ...

On Thursday, neither party really had the majority in the House. Over the course of seven roll-call votes, the final tally showed five times that the exact same number of Republicans and Democrats had ...

President Donald Trump's small Republican voting majority in the House of Representatives is getting even smaller amid unexpected departures and a tragedy, further complicating their path for passing ...

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