Dennis Hastert, the former Speaker of the House who has been accused of molesting five minors while coaching high school sports, is reportedly “sorry,” according to his lawyer.
Sen. Paul Ryan, the newly-elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will not let the new title go to his head. He will not be moving over to the the Speaker’s office in the Capitol, he will not stop his daily buns and guns, and he certainly will not start sleeping in a real bed in a real home during the…
As a descendant of Irish peasants and a graduate of a Catholic high school, I personally know that “Catholic guilt” can be a cruel and unyielding master. Little did I know that that same Catholic guilt is used to decide some of the most important decisions in the United States government.
Lean In Award of the Day winner Paul Ryan won the Republican nomination for Speaker of the House Wednesday in a stunning landslide for the job literally no one else wanted.
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Meet Andy Harris of Maryland. He is a member of the Freedom Caucus, he will throw his support behind Paul Ryan, and he is a hypocrite and a dirtbag from hell.
Folks—he’s going for it. After winning Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In Award of the Day” on Wednesday, Paul Ryan has declared his candidacy for Speaker of the House, the Associated Press reports.
Paul Ryan’s candidacy for the soon-to-be-vacant House Speaker position just got a major boost towards realization: the House Freedom Caucus now says they will support Ryan for the position, “all but guaranteeing he’ll get the job,” according to the Associated Press.
Realistically speaking, no one wants to be the Speaker of the House. It is an awful, thankless job that spells certain political death for whichever misguided soul ascends to its cursed ranks. That said, someone has to do it. And now that Kevin McCarthy is out of the running, throwing the House of Representatives into…
After the auspicious stepping-down of former tan mom/emotional dad John Boehner, and the subsequent withdrawal of speaker candidate Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican party is at a loss, grasping for straws — or anyone who will volunteer to lead the party. Meanwhile, the Democrats are having a jolly good laugh at the…
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who recently boasted about how effective the Benghazi select committee was at “dropping” Hillary Clinton’s “numbers,” has pulled himself out of the running for Speaker of the House, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Going into today's congressional transfer of power, most observers expected that new Speaker John Boehner would have to wrest the leader's gavel from Nancy Pelosi's death grip. But she handed it over, after a pleasantly batty speech. Congratulations, John Boehner!
[It's a big Boehner day on Capitol Hill! Here's incoming Speaker John Boehner posing with ten of his eleven (less orange-skinned) siblings outside the House chamber today, before his swearing-in. Image via speakerboehner/Flickr]
If you haven't seen frequent crier John Boehner's hilarious waterworks performance from last night's 60 Minutes yet, you haven't lived. All Lesley Stahl had to do was mention "opportunity" or "achievement" and voila: Explosive tears, from the incoming House Speaker.
