The simmering feuds within the House Republican Conference that we warned earlier today (see SGH 10/8/15, “Capitol Hill: The Speaker Vote, and the Debt Ceiling”) were complicating Majority Leader Kevin

At noon today, House Republicans will begin voting on their nominee to succeed John Boehner as Speaker. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California is all but dead certain to be

With all eyes focused on the contentious House Republican leadership elections just announced for October 8, it can almost be forgiven that after all the sound and fury over the

The political dynamics on Capitol Hill are fast moving on the stunning announcement by House Speaker John Boehner of his resignation effective October 30. *** While the House GOP has

The immediate fate of the stand-alone Trade Promotion Authority will be determined by a cloture vote in the Senate scheduled to begin at 11:00 this morning. The vote should provide

Within the last hour, the House voted by the narrowest margin possible, 218-205, to pass a re-drafted Trade Promotion Authority bill, which keeps alive the hopes of a fast track

California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer and Kentucky Republican Senator and Presidential contender Rand Paul recently introduced their “Invest in Transportation Act of 2015” that would lower the federal tax to

It now looks highly likely that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker will fall short of a 67 veto-proof majority on the current draft of his “Iran Nuclear Agreement

An expected scramble among Senate Democrats over who will succeed Minority Leader Harry Reid who announced earlier this morning that he intends to step down late next year may already

House Speaker John Boehner will find himself in a familiar, hopelessly impossible position this morning when he will face an open rebellion by his right-wing Tea Party faction during a

As immensely difficult and fraught with risks as it may be for the Federal Open Market Committee over the next few months in weighing the timing to a rates lift-off,

President Obama’s State of the Union address last night has been heralded by fellow democrats as one of his best speeches in recent years. The takeaways from his “the crisis

The single most important factor driving Congress to finally pass a budget for the fiscal year that began last October is how badly they all‎ want to get out of

As could be expected, there were plenty of Tea Party Republicans available to the media these last few days to threaten another government shutdown in response to President Obama’s stick in

Explosive leaks and rumors of the White House weighing an executive order on immigration are stirring up renewed partisan passions on Capitol Hill, putting the leadership abilities of the Republican

There is no way to overstate just how stunning the Republican sweep was across the electoral map last night. The GOP won every single closely contested Senate race but one,

With the US mid-term elections barely five days away, all the momentum and polling across the key battleground states are pointing to the Republican Party winning back control of the Senate

With less than 40 days remaining before the November mid-term elections, the balance of the Senate remains uncertain with almost every one of the key Senate races too close to call.

This Labor Day weekend just past opens the political homestretch to the U.S. November mid-term elections. With the House certain to stay firmly in Republican hands, the focus is naturally on

The election of a party’s Whip would not ordinarily command much attention, but in the wake of Eric Cantor’s shock defeat in a Virginia primary last week, tomorrow’s House Republican