More directly, allowing the President to appoint the Speaker of the House would be tantamount to consolidating power in the executive and diminishing the independence of the legislative branch.

My column has as much power as that committee is going to have,” Will, a longtime conservative columnist for The Washington Post, said during his Thursday appearance on NewsNation’s show ...

And the speaker is 82 years old. Her power and her ability to wield her strength with precision are the substance of her legacy. The clothes she wore are the grace notes.

That's not the path to longevity as speaker of this House. The only slim hope for progress in 2016 on a grand bargain, maybe even an immigration reform package as well, was in a House headed by a ...

The speaker’s decision to cashier his Intelligence chair wasn’t about Donald Trump. ... Her reported column, Corridors, illuminates how power pulses through Washington, ...