Republican U.S. Reps. Andy Barr and Brett Guthrie are in the running for two committee chair positions that would boost their clout in Congress.
Among the most watched races for Louisville are races for Metro Council, U.S. Congressional Districts and Kentucky Legislative races.
A statement posted on his website Friday evening said the 86-year-old was in a crash on Wednesday.
Removing the speaker launches the House Republicans into chaos heading into a busy fall when Congress will need to fund the government again or risk a mid-November shutdown.
Half is from a federal earmark secured by U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers for the Army Corps of Engineers.
The positions goes to the longest-serving member of Congress.
Republican Gerardo Serrano has also filed to run.
As disbarred lawyer Eric Conn sits in a federal prison, hundreds of people in one of America’s poorest regions remain mired in the legal mess he caused by running a $600 million fraud, the largest Social Security scam in U.S. history.
Rogers says he did go through the detectors when he entered -- but the committee claims he did not go back through them when he left.
The Democratic governor called it “a good day for democracy.”