Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., who served as interim House speaker for three weeks in October, announced he plans to retire rather than run for reelection.

When a 29-year-old Patrick McHenry entered Congress in 2005, few would have believed the man described asthe GOP’s “attack dog-in-training” would retire two decades later as a paragon of ...

Speaker Pro Tempore Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., presides over the House of Representatives as House lawmakers hold a vote to elect a new speaker in Washington on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.

Increasing numbers of Republicans leaving a closed-door meeting said that a plan to give the caretaker speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R., N.C.), powers to bring legislation to the floor was all ...

Leaving a closed-door GOP meeting to determine the way forward, Rep. Pat Fallon (R., Texas) estimated that about two-thirds of the House Republican conference opposed the idea of electing the ...

The proposal comes after the historic ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy last year. It resulted in a three-week period of inaction as then-Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC) was ...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused new interim Speaker Patrick McHenry on Tuesday night of kicking her out of her workspace in the Capitol just hours after the chamber's abrupt change in ...

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) joked that his sister sent him “the cruelest things” people said about him on the internet after his famous gavel slam affirming the ouster of former Speaker ...

Speaker Pro Tempore Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., presides over the House of Representatives as House lawmakers hold a vote to elect a new speaker in Washington on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.