Kevin McCarthy

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., met at the White House to discuss a range of issues, including raising the debt ceiling.

The House speaker arrived for the afternoon session carrying no formal GOP budget proposal, but he is laden with the promises he made to far-right and other conservative Republican lawmakers during his difficult campaign to become House speaker.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’s looking forward to discussing with President Joe Biden a “reasonable and responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling” when the two meet Wednesday at the White House.

Electing the House speaker may have been the easy part. Now House Republicans will try to govern. Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed his first tests late Monday as the Republicans approved their rules package for governing House operations, typically a routine step on Day One that stretched into the second week of the new majority. It was approved 220-213, a party-line vote with one Republican opposed....

Republican Kevin McCarthy has been elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks.

The House stalemate over choosing a new speaker has held firm through a long, excruciating third day and evening of voting with no conclusion. But glimmers of a deal began to emerge late Thursday. Party leader Kevin McCarthy is determined to win over enough fellow Republicans. He has offered the conservative holdouts rule changes to give them more power to...

As Republicans struggled for a second day to elect a House speaker, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida emerged as the choice of conservative holdouts who are refusing to support Kevin McCarthy’s bid.

After four contentious days of voting, negotiations and Republican infighting, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was voted in as House speaker early Saturday morning.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters that he is confident he will become Speaker of the House, before losing the first round of voting on Tuesday. “We may have a battle on the floor, but the battle is for the conference and the country, and that’s fine with me.”

In a dramatic nod to the far-right, Kevin McCarthy has threatened an impeachment investigation against Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas unless he resigns.

Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy won the support of a majority of his caucus in a vote for the party’s nominee for speaker of the House.

Most every Republican lawmaker expressed outrage in the days after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Some even blamed then-President Donald Trump. But the larger GOP narrative shifted in the weeks and months that followed. Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, who had said in the hours after the attack that it had been “the saddest day…

Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is making it clear that he will likely defy a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, escalating a standoff with the panel over his and other GOP lawmakers’ testimony. In an 11-page letter to the panel Friday, an attorney for McCarthy argued that the select committee does not have the…

The panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas Thursday to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers, an extraordinary step that has little precedent.

The committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol took the unprecedented step Thursday of issuing subpoenas to five Republican congressmen, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has assured colleagues he never asked then-President Donald Trump to resign over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol

In the days after the Capitol riot, the GOP House leader warned fellow Republicans that Trump’s far-right allies in Congress are “putting people in jeopardy” with their public tweets and comments.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is slamming Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a “liar and a traitor” over recordings that show the House Republican leader, despite his denials, placing responsibility on Donald Trump for the Capitol riot and suggesting Trump should resign

The next House speaker could very well hail from California, but if Republicans take control, that leader won’t come from the part of the state represented by the current speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco