Recess appointments would allow Donald Trump to appoint his nominees while the Senate is not in session, skirting the ...

President-elect Donald Trump rocked the Republican-controlled Senate this week with a string of unorthodox Cabinet picks.

Republican Dave McCormick won the U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, Decision Desk HQ projected on Thursday, beating ...

Plus, Sen. John Thune will be the next Senate majority leader, while President-elect Donald Trump continues to build his next ...

Pressure is rising in the US Senate for details on the House’s sexual misconduct probe into Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s ...

The Republican president-elect's victory and the GOP takeover of the Senate leaves just seven weeks of Democratic control of ...

For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is ...

Some Senate Republicans have balked at Trump's picking Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general. And then there's Tommy ...

The Republican senator has spent years battling Anthony S. Fauci and public-health experts over the pandemic’s origins.

Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is preparing to lead the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

“The Senate has an advise and consent rule in the Constitution ... Long Beach and John Wayne So long to ‘America’s Flagship’: ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump is seeking to circumvent the long and drawn-out process of having to submit nominations to ...