Every Republican Speaker of the House elected since 1994, including Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, John Boehner, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy, vacated the leadership without establishing permanent party control

Bicameral federal legislature of the United States, made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which writes law, controls federal spending and oversees the executive branch. Its two chambers represent states and districts on different terms and hold different constitutional powers.