Retropolis A 400-pound gavel? The story of a symbol of congressional power and its heavy-handed abusers. After Nancy Pelosi was elected House speaker Thursday, she was given a wooden mallet with a ...

‘Gavel’: A Tool for Stonework and Legislative Politics A mallet symoblizing authority most likely got its name from the secret traditions of Freemasons By Ben Zimmer Follow ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joked at a Saturday night event that it “will be hard not to hit” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the speaker’s gavel if Republicans take control of the ...

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D.,N.Y.) handed Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California the speaker's gavel. Democrats had the majority in the last Congress and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California ...

ST. PAUL - Nicholas Daudt stood at the ready, holding a large white oak gavel, awaiting his uncle's orders. When uncle Kurt Daudt told the 7-year-old, the gavel fell, notifying Minnesota House ...

We chalked up one more national black eye last week, this one thanks to our increasingly infamous Trumbull County commissioners. In a light-hearted story I normally would describe as a “fun read ...

Speaker Mike Johnson gave President Donald Trump a speaker's gavel on Friday, immediately after Trump signed a massive spending bill into law. The post Mike Johnson Gives Trump Speaker’s Gavel ...

With a loud clap that echoes through the Georgia House, Speaker Jon Burns ’ gavel usually commands the attention of 180 restless representatives. Until it snaps, as it has four times since November.

Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly banged her gavel to try to silence a Democratic colleague who called her out for speaking out of turn to praise President Donald Trump. During a DOGE subcommittee ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is getting strong criticism after he said “it will be hard to not hit” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a gavel if he becomes speaker.

This morning, a gavel of special significance entered the Smithsonian collections: the maple gavel with which former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the first woman ever to hold that title ...

The MAGA Republican was criticized for speaking out of turn when she rushed to Donald Trump’s defense.