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Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) expressed strong support for Pete Hegseth following a direct meeting with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, signaling early momentum for…
Speaker Mike Johnson used his weekly House Republican Leadership press conference on July 21, 2026, to lay out an ambitious legislative week ahead, with House Republicans targeting passage of major…
The House of Representatives has passed H.R. 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, advancing a sweeping military policy bill that combines a long-overdue pay raise for…
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain brought together Members of Congress and survivors of communist regimes on July 27, 2026, for a roundtable discussion that put personal testimony at the…
The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces advanced a series of defense authorization provisions on June 4, 2026, as its contribution to the full committee markup…
The House of Representatives passed H.R. 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, on July 22, 2026, advancing a sweeping defense policy measure that supporters say strengthens…
Impeachment is the constitutional process by which Congress can remove the President, Vice President, federal judges, and other civil officers of the United States from office for “high crimes and…
The presidential line of succession is the order in which government officials assume the powers and duties of the President of the United States if the President dies, resigns, is…
A government trifecta exists when one political party simultaneously controls the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature (or, at the federal level, the presidency and both chambers of…
As of 2026, Republicans hold 26 of the 50 state governorships in the United States. Republican governors lead states representing a wide range of populations, economies, and geographic regions, from…