President-elect Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most ...

President-elect Donald Trump is pushing for recess appointments to place members of his administration into positions without ...

Republicans are going to court in Pennsylvania amid vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen.

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he would step down from his leadership post earlier this year, ending his historic ...

The pragmatic establishment figure who offers candid political takes as McConnell’s voter-counter is someone Democrats say is ...

Cornyn has for years signaled he wanted to succeed his close ally GOP leader Mitch McConnell. He lost in a vote decided by ...

Donald Trump has won the public embrace of virtually every Republican currently in federal elected office. In private, ...

President-elect Donald Trump congratulated Sen. John Thune on winning election to the role of Senate majority leader, ...

Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamber’s next majority leader ...

Sen. John Thune​ of South Dakota won on the second round of voting against Sen. John Cornyn​ of Texas in the race for Senate ...

Republicans have officially won a full trifecta of power in Washington, D.C., following GOP victories in several key U.S.

The future of Donald Trump’s second term in office will be shaped inside a closed room in the United States Senate on ...