House GOP Leaves Retreat With a Plan
Republicans don't have a firm policy agenda yet, but Paul Ryan vows that they will by the time the party has a presidential nominee.

Republicans don't have a firm policy agenda yet, but Paul Ryan vows that they will by the time the party has a presidential nominee.

House Republicans have fewer internal splits than a year ago, but they differ with their Senate counterparts on the policy front.

The speaker really wants lawmakers to show up on time. To prove it, he closed a vote when nearly a third of the House hadn't shown up yet.

The Hill's top two Republicans have divergent goals this election year.

"I think people are relieved," Paul Ryan says of his speakership so far, projecting confidence about his 2016 agenda.

The two packages drew complaints from both the Right and Left, but GOP and Democratic leaders were able to cobble together a big majority anyway.

Party leadership says the "vote no, hope yes" era is hurting their leverage at the bargaining table.

The two leaders bridged a wide generational gap to cut their first deal, and neither came out as the clear winner.

The new speaker asked fellow Republicans to back a $1.1 trillion spending bill, even after many of the riders they’d sought were left on the cutting-room floor.

Congress will approve another CR to give negotiators on omnibus and tax packages more time.
