He'll need to get the nod from hardline and moderate members of the Republican caucus and he'll have pressing business to attend to.A conservative Catholic lawmaker announced he will boycott Pope Francis' historic address before Congress Thursday because of the pope's views on climate change.The White House received encouraging signs Tuesday that Senate Democrats are slowly lining up in support of President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, while Republican leaders formally announced their plans to pursue legislation to defeat it.The top House Democrat said Thursday that President Obama will have the support he needs to uphold the Iran nuclear deal if Republicans try to block it.A conservative lawmaker launched a provocative but unlikely effort late Tuesday to oust House Speaker John Boehner from his job. The two also clash over race.As the Republican National Convention is about to kickoff, Donald Trump names a VP.Can the Republican Party unite before November? But now that the lawmakers may be getting what they want, many political operatives see it as a train wreck for their presidential campaigns.The House of Representatives approved two measures pushing back at Turkey, a sign of significant bipartisan ire at a longstanding NATO ally following the country's offensive into northeastern Syria.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a letter to Democrats on Monday that the House will vote to formalize the procedures in the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Trump.Elijah Cummings has died at the age of 68 because of complications concerning longstanding health challenges, his office says.Freshman Democrats are taking on a political risk in supporting an impeachment inquiry of President Trump. The Republican National Committee is on track to compress the party's nomination process for a presidential candidate in 2016, though Iowa and New Hampshire will still be the first states to cast votes in the process.President Obama put Congress on notice Tuesday night that he is poised to act without their help, but congressional Republicans countered that a president can go only so far without the legislative branch, even one as unpopular as this.House Republican leaders unveiled on Thursday their principles for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.House Republican leaders unveiled late Tuesday a resolution authorizing the creation of a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack on a U.S. consulate in 2012 that resulted in the death of four Americans.The already uphill battle in this Congress to overhaul the nation's immigration laws became even more difficult Thursday when House Speaker John Boehner cast doubts that a bill can pass this year.House Republican leaders are moving ahead with an increase in the nation's debt limit in exchange for a reversal of minor cuts in military pensions that were part of the recent bipartisan budget deal.Three years of battling over the nation's debt and borrowing authority reached an anticlimactic end Wednesday, when the Senate approved with little debate and only minor delay a House-passed measure to suspend the debt ceiling until March 2015.Rep. View Susan Davis’ profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. "Let's be clear: Trump does not have the ability to delay the election," he wrote on Twitter.Let’s be clear: Trump does not have the ability to delay the election.