I certainly wasn't the the only one to notice how big John Boehner's gavel was. Even Nancy Pelosi, who became minority leader, made a quip when she handed the gavel to the newly minted speaker of the ...

On this day in 1906, Speaker Joseph Cannon shattered his gavel while attempting to restore order during an acrimonious debate that occurred while the House sat as the Committee of the Whole. The ...

The House of Representatives votes to elect Nancy Pelosi as speaker. Nancy Pelosi recaptured the speaker’s gavel Thursday, starting another chapter in her historic career as House Democrats take power ...

Given that the events of the day, and the fact that social media is going to be a fact-optional landfill for the foreseeable future (Thanks, Elmo), we should open the shebeen this week with a little ...

The pounding of the Speaker’s gavel may not sound artful to everyone, but the House History and Preservation Office is honoring the familiar legislative tool. The new Speaker’s gavel display, just ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson held on and won the speakership again Friday after a pair of Republican defectors ultimately flipped their votes to support him. Aided by the endorsement of President-elect ...

It all started in the early 1990s when Iowa City letter carrier Chester Schulte attended one of his union meetings here. “They can be kind of noisy at times,” he said with a grin, “and the president ...

Imagine that gavel sound from Law & Order, and here we go: In 1999, the U.S. EPA sued Cinergy Corp. for modifying several coal-fueled power plants without following Clean Air Act pollution-control ...