The House is on the verge of the first major vote to approve legislation to lift the debt limit. a catastrophic financial default could become a reality if Congress doesn't pass the bill by Monday.

As set out under the Constitution, the session will begin at noon Jan. 3, with all the lawmakers seated on the House floor and members from both parties joining in the vote for speaker.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday are holding closed-door votes as they try to pick a new speaker, with two members of the caucus left after several rounds of voting.

Without a speaker, the United States House of Representatives essentially becomes a useless entity. ... and those elected to serve cannot set up operations to help out their constituents.

With Republicans clinching control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, the party will need to elect a speaker when the new Congress is sworn in, normally on Jan. 3.

Republicans narrowly regained the majority in the House of Representatives Wednesday, salvaging a measure of success on what turned out to be a worse-than-expected midterm election night for the GOP.

The House of Representatives voted last night not to expel Republican Representative George Santos. Members of his own party from his home state of New York had filed a motion to kick him out ...

New Yorkers were threatening legal moves to try to avoid losing a US House seat because the Census showed the state was 89 people short—out of 20.2 million—of the number needed to maintain its ...

The race for the majority in the House of Representatives is on with each party vying for power and key races yet to be called. As of Saturday, Republicans held 212 seats and Democrats held 200. A ...

Pelosi says "the enemy is within" Congress 16:20. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House members can pay for additional security measures with their congressional allowances, and said ...

The result is a House of Representatives that now serves only to either block or—in the case of “must pass” legislation—rubber-stamp Senate bills on major issues.

The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States.... Three issues—length of terms, equal versus proportional representation ...