GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia posed with House Speaker Mike Johnson for a photograph to mark the start of the next Congress and left with a guarantee that his investigation into the January 6,

Congressional Republicans are dismissing President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. could use military force to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal. Just hours after Trump repeatedly declined during a freewheeling press conference to rule out deploying military strength to take over the areas,

President-elect Donald Trump and the spending-skeptical House may be on a path that could end in a collision over federal spending. Just consider his pricey idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland. A group of conservative House Republicans last month demanded deep spending cuts as Congress struggled to pass an extension of government funding

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Trump’s forthcoming nominee to be ambassador to the UN, is also viewed as a potential Day One confirmation. Stefanik is expected to get a hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 16.

The House voted on Tuesday to pass a GOP-led bill to require detention of undocumented migrants charged with certain crimes, but the measure faces an uncertain future in the Senate in a sign of the challenges facing Republicans despite controlling both chambers of Congress.

Republicans' exact majority in the House will shift over the first few weeks of Trump's second term, as Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. and Mike Waltz, R-Fla., plan to leave Congress for roles in his administration. When they are replaced through special elections, the GOP lead in the lower chamber is expected to reach 220-215.

Bring it on. That’s the message from former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger amid calls from President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters who say he should be prosecuted and jailed for his role in the congressional committee that investigated the violent riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

A Democratic state representative’s health problems could complicate the vote for speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

President-elect Trump will inherit a country that is '...actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since George W. Bush came into office in 2001,' writes the New York Times' Peter Baker.

Operation Vance: Soon after accompanying newly elected U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio to his official swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Vice President-elect JD Vance had minor surgery for a sinus condition, Sabrina Eaton writes. A statement from Vance spokesman Will Martin said the Cincinnati Republican would be back on the job the next day.

President-elect Donald Trump presses Republicans to swiftly send him "one powerful Bill" after he takes office.