BILLY LONG

Without a speaker, none of the them can be sworn in, and the 118th Congress can’t convene or vote on any rules. “I don’t know if I have health care, I don’t know if my staff get paid. “We are operating by precedent.”On the House floor, clerk Cheryl Johnson is holding the gavel, not the Republican majority. Off the floor, members are operating under the rules for the last Congress — they think. Republican Tom Cole of Oklahoma, the incoming chairman of the House Rules Committee, said that members-elect were operating under the rules of the previous Congress, when Democrats were in control.

As Republicans squabble over who will be the next speaker, there are essentially no members in the U.S. House of Representatives — only members-elect.

A chamber full of representatives-elect is failing to install Kevin McCarthy (or anyone else) as speaker, so they can’t be sworn in yet.

Long, an early Trump endorser, added to the odd confusion after Trump offered a vague show of support in the race.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has defeated scandal-scarred former Gov. Eric Greitens and 19 others in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

Primary elections are being held in six states on Tuesday.

Aspiring Republican candidates are jumping at two open Missouri U.S. congressional seats.

Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman’s long search has ended after he was reunited in Tokyo with a cherished guitar 45 years after it was stolen from a Toronto hotel.

An attorney who held key roles in the George W.

An attorney working as a senior investigator for the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will leave the post amid calls urging him to run for a Missouri U.S. Senate seat as an independent.

Former Republican U.S. Sen. John Danforth and others are urging a former federal prosecutor who now serves as an attorney for the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection to make an independent run for one of Missouri’s Senate seats.

Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) proposed that he can somehow convince Kamala Harris to resign and get Joe Biden to appoint the former president as his V.P.

Republicans who embraced discredited conspiracy theories about Donald Trump's 2020 defeat and preached skepticism about elections now need their supporters to trust the system enough to vote for them.

Some Republicans worry that if the scandal-plagued former governor were to win the primary, it would place a Senate seat considered to be safely GOP in jeopardy.

She rooted him on in 2020, but Sarah Jessica Parker isn’t explicitly throwing her support behind President Biden if he makes a 2024 reelection bid. “I would like to think that he feels good enough and well enough, and we’ll see, right?” the “And Just Like That” star told ITK when asked whether she’d back…

For all their angst about the possibility of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in the state, GOP leaders haven’t coalesced behind an alternative.

The campaign to replace Kyrsten Sinema, a sort-of-unexpected retirement in Nashville, and why Democrats are thanking two Trump-appointed judges in Alabama.

A U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri, Republican state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, is flexing the power of his office by filing a slew of lawsuits, including against Democratic cities and schools to stop mask mandates.