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The tally reflects the extraordinary chaos and paralysis that gripped the House in 2023, when lawmakers did more voting but less lawmaking than at any time in the past decade.

For 13 years, House Republicans have cycled between a far-right group of about 15 to 30 conservatives first holding things hostage, and then the leadership team getting ahead of the next hostage-taking by declaring that that was the preferred strategy.

Los Angeles Times: "As McCarthy leaves the stage, it’s worth noting that his nemesis, San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, has outlasted yet another of her foes.""Like other Republican House speakers, McCarthy is quitting Congress after struggling to wrangle the far-right members of his conference

From the editorial, "Instead, McCarthy is leaving early, perhaps as a way to strike back at the conference that rejected him (and humiliated him earlier this year through 14 unsuccessful speaker ballots before he was elected). "

In the early morning hours of Jan. 6, as Rep. Kevin McCarthy prepared to try for the 12th time to win enough votes to become speaker of the House, a

It’s not surprising that dozens of members of the U.S. House of Representatives are choosing to leave the dysfunctional chamber rather than seek another term. The politics are toxic. The

The absence of this Trump apologist – along with the expulsion of Rep. George Santos – means the GOP‘s already slim majority becomes even slimmer.

The No. 4 Republican, a Harvard alumna with a fraught relationship with her alma mater, had a confrontation over campus responses to antisemitism that resonated across the political spectrum.

In the early morning hours of Jan. 6, as Rep. Kevin McCarthy prepared to try for the 12th time to win enough votes to become speaker of the House, a

The former Republican speaker's hasty departure leaves his voters in the Central Valley in the lurch, but apparently that doesn't matter anymore.