Mike Johnson

WATCH: Johnson speaks after House passes a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown

By Kevin Freking, Associated Press

Prospects looked dimmer in the Senate, where the two parties show no signs of budging on the matter.

Democrats stake out opposition to spending bill, raising threat of a shutdown

By Kevin Freking, Associated Press

House Republicans unveiled the spending bill Tuesday.

WATCH: House Republicans release short-term measure to avoid shutdown

By Associated Press

The bill generally funds agencies at current levels, though there is an extra $88 million to boost security for lawmakers and members of the Supreme Court and the executive branch.

WATCH: ‘Yield, man.’ Speaker Johnson calls on Democratic mayors to let troops into their cities

By Associated Press

House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a news conference Tuesday that he could not understand why any Democrats would think it’s a good political message to oppose the deployments.

House Democrats release image of alleged Trump birthday note to Epstein

By Michelle L. Price, Associated Press

The House Oversight Committee has obtained the “infamous ‘Birthday Book’ that contains a note from President Trump that he has said does not exist,” the committee’s top Democrat said Monday.

Speaker Johnson says he misspoke about Trump being an FBI informant in the Epstein case

By Associated Press

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that he didn’t mean to suggest in a recent interview that Trump had or had not been an FBI informant in the case against disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Republicans planning a ‘midterm convention’ ahead of next fall’s congressional elections, Johnson confirms

By Associated Press

The idea is to give Republicans a chance to make their case to voters, who tend to reject the party in power during midterm cycles.

Many of the Epstein case files that were just released by a House committee were already public

By Stephen Groves, Associated Press

The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, responding to mounting pressure in Congress to force more…

WATCH: Jeffries says he and Johnson had ‘opening conversation’ on budget talks

By Associated Press

Congressional Republicans need to garner some Democratic support to continue funding the government.

Congress is in August recess, but tensions lie ahead on spending and Trump nominations

By Kevin Freking, Associated Press

Lawmakers have left Washington for the annual August recess, but a few weeks of relative quiet at the U.S. Capitol can’t mask the partisan tensions that are brewing on government funding and President Donald Trump’s nominees.