Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

WASHINGTON--Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot early Saturday, ...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) asserts Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) flew to Mar-a-Lago three weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021, riots on the Capitol because former President Trump was “not eating.” In ...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy held a Capitol Hill press conference late yesterday, announcing his decision to kick two Democrats off the House Intelligence Committee. When reporters were given a chance ...

The House narrowly voted to oust Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday, dooming the House speaker to a fate that seemed almost guaranteed since he took the gavel in January, with a group of rebels in his ...

He got President Biden to negotiate. And then he got a deal. Now, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is in the final phase of his debt ceiling saga: whipping up enough support for the bill in the House ...

At the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics this week, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said: “Right now, Trump has more power than Reagan. We haven’t seen a President like this on ...

A few weeks ago, we desperately needed to contact Social Security. Their website was no help. Calls to the 800 number and the local office went unanswered. Out of options, we called Rep. Kevin ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell has suspended his campaign for California governor following sexual assault allegations, announcing the decision Sunday as scrutiny intensified around the ...