I’ve never seen a group of Washington lawmakers visibly upset to hear that America is back at work. But that's exactly what I saw from Democrats at last night's State of the Union.

The Republican loss of majority control of the U.S. House in the midterm elections should come as no surprise. The president’s party has traditionally lost an average of 32 seats in the House in midterms since 1862.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, officially entered the race Thursday to become the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

If senators want to avoid a last minute, $1.3 trillion spending bill in December, fight back against Democratic obstruction and achieve conservative policy victories, they need to double down – before their month-long August break.

The Senate’s machinations on the health insurance bill have led to significant movement in the past week. Republicans need a legislative win, the first substantive legislative win this year, so they can move on to fundamental tax reform, which has more agreement across all stripes of Republican lawmakers.

As a newly unified government has begun tackling a range of reforms, conservatives are continuing to champion another area in need of a legislative update: criminal justice reform.

Conservatives have a small window of opportunity to make the changes our country urgently needs.

The House Freedom Caucus is the future of our movement, and we must double down in our support of these conservatives.

The United States is in the midst of a constitutional crisis.

The 40 or so Republicans known as the House Freedom Caucus are not some marginal fringe group. They are finally fulfilling the promise of Republicanism past.