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What’s next for Louisiana’s Steve Scalise after losing House leadership role?
“I’ve got to get through these next few weeks, and then we have a lot of decisions to make about what's life going to look like in the minority,” Scalise said. Read More
Jim Jordan fits the fight ahead
Jim Jordan brings the combative oversight record House Republicans need as they prepare for life in the minority. Read More
GOP just voted to make themselves ‘intellectual prisoners of the White House’: WSJ
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board says House Republicans have lost their policy edge and handed their thinking to the Trump White House, and it wants new Minority Leader Jim Jordan (R-OH) to change that, in an editorial titled “A GOP House of Ideas, or Hacks.”House Republicans elected Jordan Read More
Longtime GOP leader faces uncertain future after Jim Jordan wins House leadership fight
Steve Scalise declined to commit to serving a full term in the 120th Congress after losing the House Republican minority leader race to Jim Jordan. Read More
Jim Jordan Elected New House GOP Leader
State of the Union: The Ohio congressman beat out House Majority Leader Steve Scalise for the job. Read More
Jim Jordan’s ascent to minority leader represents new chapter for Republicans
Republicans on Tuesday declined the seasoned experience of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), who has served in leadership since 2014. Read More
Jim Jordan elected House Republican leader after crushing midterm defeat
Ohio conservative Jim Jordan defeats Steve Scalise as Republicans prepare to enter the minority in the next Congress. Read More
Jim Jordan elected House GOP minority leader over Louisiana’s Steve Scalise
This marks the end of the historic three-year stint when the two top leaders in the lower chamber were both from Louisiana. Read More
Scalise and Jordan face off in House leadership battle as GOP reels from blue tsunami
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio.) have been working the phone lines and courting freshman lawmakers as they jockey to lead the House GOP now that Speaker Mik… Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Former Aide Says GOP Needs Jim Jordan as ‘Wartime Consigliere’
Former Jim Jordan aide Russell Dye says the GOP needs a ‘wartime consigliere’ to lead the House minority, backing him over Steve Scalise. Read More
Two House Republicans battle to lead the party’s diminished ranks
The race for House minority leader is a rematch between two longtime rivals: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan. Read More
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to what happens next on Capitol Hill
Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan are vying for top House Republican, and incoming progressives challenge Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries for leadership. Read More
Reporter's Notebook: A user’s manual to upcoming leadership elections in the House and Senate
Capitol Hill leadership elections pit Hakeem Jeffries against progressive dissent, while Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan battle for GOP minority leader. Read More
Scalise directs GOP chairs to start 'taking inventory' of coming Democratic investigations
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) encouraged his GOP colleagues to “maximize our remaining days in power” by preparing for an expected onslaught of Democratic investigations. In a letter to GOP committee chairs, Scalise said the party needs to begin “taking inventory” of expected Democrati Read More
Steve Scalise tells GOP chairs to prep for Democratic investigations
The guidance comes as Scalise faces off with Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan to lead House Republicans. Read More
Trump loyalists face off to lead a decimated House GOP
Both Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise are close presidential allies, suggesting no clean break is imminent. Read More
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise will run for minority leader
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) will run for minority leader, setting up what will likely be a contentious contest against House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for the position. A source familiar with Scalise’s plans shared them with The Hill, swiftly following news that S Read More
Louisiana’s Steve Scalise will run for GOP minority leader after Democrats take Congress
Speaker Mike Johnson, who is also from Louisiana, is stepping down from leading the GOP in Congress after Democrats decisively took back control of Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Read More
Mike Johnson concedes, Steve Scalise speaks after Democrats flip the House in 2026 midterms
Louisiana’s U.S. Reps. Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise, the two highest-ranking House Republicans who were both re-elected Tuesday, vowed to continue fighting for conservative causes after Democrats were projected to Read More
Incumbents keep 4 Congressional seats, two districts headed to run-off elections
BATON ROUGE - Four incumbents in the state congressional races will keep their seats, and voters will return to the polls in December for two runoff elections. Voters elected to keep Republicans Mike Johnson , Steve Scalise and Clay Higgins and Democrat Troy Carter. Because of a national "Blue Wave, Read More