Follow our live updates for the House speaker vote. Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio lost a bid to become speaker on Tuesday after 20 Republicans refused to back him, prolonging a two-week fight that has paralyzed the chamber and underscored the deep Republican divisions in the House. The group included vulnerable Republicans from districts that…
The two leading candidates to become the next Republican speaker of the House worked the phones and the halls of the Capitol on Thursday, vying for support from within their party’s fractured ranks as the chamber remained in a state of paralysis after the ouster of Representative Kevin McCarthy of California. Representatives Steve Scalise, the…
Jim Kolbe, who for a decade was the only openly gay Republican in Congress, died on Saturday. He was 80. The death was announced by Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona. The statement did say where he died or cite a cause. Mr. Kolbe, who served in the House of Representatives from 1985 until he retired…