A key moderate Republican leader is looking to introduce a resolution on Wednesday temporarily expanding the powers of interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., after two weeks of gridlock ...

House Republicans will not move forward with a plan to empower interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry until January, several GOP lawmakers said. Rep. Jim Jordan had backed the idea after his bid ...

Interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry didn't rule out supporting a GOP resolution to expand his powers in the role, telling CNN his focus is on getting Rep. Jim Jordan elected after the speaker ...

With consensus proving elusive, members of the House of Representatives have been reconsidering the role of the temporary Speaker, Patrick McHenry. The bow-tied, bespectacled career politician ...

When a handful of House Republicans decided to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Democrats refused to save him. Now, after more than two weeks of Republicans trying and failing to fill the leadership ...

Behind closed doors, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told his caucus that he had yet to speak with Republicans about the resolution that would empower interim Speaker Patrick McHenry ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, won’t face another round of voting for speaker today. He was expected to lose additional votes. So Jordan is now getting behind an interim ...

Let’s assume for a minute that House Republicans fail to coalesce behind a new speaker this week. What would it look like if Acting Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry — the bow-tied linchpin ...

Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) for weeks has been at the center of a storm that keeps threatening to propel him to the most powerful office in Congress — whether he wants that or not.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) failed to secure the necessary votes to secure the speakership after 22 House Republicans voted against him during a second vote on Wednesday. Jordan ...

The congressman temporarily leading the House of Representatives as it searches for a new speaker was selected for the job by Rep. Kevin McCarthy before he was ousted from the speaker’s chair, and ...