I think her number one quality is that she listens,” Scott said in a phone call Monday afternoon. “She has made an effort to ...

Virginia's state House will soon have its first Black speaker in its more than 400-year history after the chamber's incoming Democratic majority chose lawmaker Don Scott to serve in the post.

The battle between Eugene Vindman (D) and Derrick Anderson (R), both Army veterans turned lawyers, is one of the country’s ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to pull the six-month stopgap continuing appropriations bill due to lack of votes, ...

Johnson faces another threat to speakership over Ukraine and Israel aid plans On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Mike Johnson spent the day juggling his foreign aid priorities for Ukraine and Israel ...

West Virginia Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety Secretary Jeff Sandy, center, thanks members of the Fraternal Order of Police Blennerhassett Lodge 79 for ...

Work on the presidential inauguration platform is kicking off at the U.S. Capitol. Congressional leaders pounded the first ...

Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears announced her bid for governor of Virginia — a contest that will take place next year but is already ramping up — Democratic House Speaker Don Scott is throwing his ...

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers.... A “Speaker of the House” has been an organic part of the Anglo-American legislative process for centuries—at ...

By Carl Hulse Republicans and Democrats voted Wednesday to block a motion that sought to remove the speaker of the House. By The New York Times A successful bipartisan effort to force a vote on ...