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The U.S. House is set to go into another week without a speaker, after the candidacy of Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ended on Friday.

“The thing for the present Congress to do is to adjourn and adjourn quickly. There is no possibility of its accomplishing anything of advantage to the people now, if there ever was.” Sounds like something you could easily read in today’s newspaper accounts. But it’s from a Missoulian newspaper editorial written in April 1894, when Democrats controlled both the White House and the Congress.

There’s been speculation for weeks that Montana U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale might jump into the Republican race for U.S. Senate, and while he still hasn’t made an announcement, other Republicans are already interested in the eastern congressional district seat he may leave open.

The stalemate stems from a split among House Republicans about how much the government should spend and whether the bills should be filled with far-right policy objectives.

Missoula Democrat Monica Tranel announced Monday she is running again for Montana’s 1st Congressional District in 2024 two years after she lost to Republican Ryan Zinke by about 7,800 votes, a roughly three-point margin.

A group of staunchly conservative state lawmakers gathered at the Montana State Capitol for the official launch of the newly formed Montana Freedom Caucus.

In a speech that was both far-ranging yet brief and his first floor speech since returning to the United States House of Representatives, Zinke blames the deep state, liberal dark money, and the media for a host of personal and political attacks.

Jim Elliott writes, "The United States House of Representatives will be doing exhaustive (and exhausting) investigating into many things like Hunter Biden, Jill Biden, President Biden, and Major Biden (the Biden’s dog, which has an anger management issue)."

Two years after a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undo Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election, Democrats in Congress on Friday vowed to remember the Capitol police officers who died.

In the ninth round of voting for a new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, Rep. Matt Rosendale described the body's current system as broken and demanded change by withholding his vote Kevin McCarthy.