President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet and other high-profile posts will be a test for the new Senate. Will it ...

Republicans have won full control of Washington, but Democrats will retain two key levers of power to shape legislative ...

Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for even some of the most powerful ...

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

Trump is challenging congressional Republicans to defy him as he says he will nominate controversial figures to his Cabinet.

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

WASHINGTON — In the hours after President-elect Donald Trump announced that vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was his ...

President-elect Donald Trump can't afford to lose the support of more than three Republican senators for his most contentious ...

Republican senators are preparing for a robust vetting of Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department, with a keen interest in details from a House Ethics Committee ...

There is no need for hearings on the nominations of Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz. Republican senators should immediately make both nominations irrelevant.

Senators are calling for access to a House Ethics Committee probe into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., following his ...

McCaskill said Thursday that 11 senators could stand in Gaetz's way of being appointed as Trump's attorney general.