Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch’s informal rule requiring support from 75% of his Democratic members before allowing floor ...

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is predicting that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will remain in the top job for six years ...

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, 75, who had long been regarded in the public eye as just a Regular Joe from the Midwest — that is until his scandal emerged — has been released from a federal ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Dennis Hastert, former Republican speaker of the House. Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison in a hush money case that revealed he was being accused ...

The congressional joint session to count electoral votes is expected to be much less eventful than the certification four ...

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But the handful of conservative dissidents still had no realistic path to the speakership themselves. They had no viable ...

It’s unlikely such a vote could ever take place, because of the informal “Hastert Rule” among Republicans. Named after former Speaker Dennis Hastert, it means a vote won’t happen unless a ...