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Tensions erupted on Capitol Hill on Tuesday after a fistfight nearly broke out in a Senate hearing and one Republican congressman accused former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of assaulting him.

The 234-188 tally came after enough Democrats joined with Republicans to censure Tlaib, a punishment one step below expulsion from the House

Rep. George Santos, R-New York, spoke to reporters after the House voted down a resolution to expel him.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has said he will continue to hold the nominees up unless the Pentagon ends its new policy of paying for travel when a service member has to go out of state to get an abortion or other reproductive care

The congressman from Louisiana was elected speaker of the House. Here are some things to know about the Republican representative.

Republicans elected Rep. Mike Johnson as House speaker Wednesday, elevating a deeply conservative but lesser-known leader to the seat of U.S. power and ending for now the political chaos in their majority.

Rep. Johnson, a member of the House GOP leadership team, becomes the fourth nominee for House speaker in what has become an almost absurd cycle of political infighting since Kevin McCarthy’s ouster

For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country’s core institutions.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, failed to secure the House speakership for the third time.

Jordan’s supporters have made some GOP lawmakers more entrenched in their opposition to his bid for the speaker’s gavel. “They’re harassing our spouses,” says Rep. Don Bacon.

Republicans rejected Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker on Tuesday on the first ballot, as holdouts denied the hard-charging ally of Donald Trump the majority needed to seize the gavel.

Republicans chose Rep. Jim Jordan as their new nominee for House speaker on Friday during internal voting, putting the gavel within reach of the staunch ally of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump.

Republicans nominated Rep. Steve Scalise on Wednesday to be the next House speaker but now must try to unite their deeply divided majority to elect the conservative in a floor vote after ousting Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the job.

The House’s unelected speaker pro tempore is limited in what he can do to advance support for Israel, experts say.

After Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-California, was removed as Speaker of the House, President Joe Biden expressed concern that congressional infighting could upend efforts to support Ukraine. “It’s overwhelmingly in the interest of the United States of America that Ukraine succeed.”

President Joe Biden announced student debt relief for an additional 125,000 Americans on Wednesday under the Higher Education Act, clearing $9 billion in student loans for select groups of borrowers.

The stunning removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker has left the House adrift as Republicans struggle to bring order to their fractured majority and begin the difficult and potentially prolonged process of uniting around a new leader.

The day after Congress voted to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-California, as Speaker of the House, President Joe Biden called on the House to work together to avoid partisan roadblocks. “We have a lot of work to do and the American people expect us to get it done.”

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused new interim Speaker Patrick McHenry on Tuesday night of kicking her out of her workspace in the Capitol just hours after the chamber’s abrupt change in leadership.

The House of Representatives has entered uncharted territory after a successful effort to remove Republican Kevin McCarthy as speaker.