Tennessee Registry of Election Finance members are considering a complaint filed by Sen. Ken Yager, chair of the Senate ...

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

The Senate must confirm 24 cabinet positions before those individuals can begin their first day in office. Here's a look at ...

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

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

Democratic senators are fast-tracking Biden's judicial nominations before President-elect Trump takes office in January and after several of his nominees have come under fire.

WASHINGTON — Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous ...

John Thune, John Cornyn and Rick Scott are vying to succeed Mitch McConnell as the Republicans leader in the U.S. Senate.

The leadership election marks a monumental changing of the guard after nearly two decades with McConnell as Senate GOP leader ...

The Republicans are taking the majority in the U.S. Senate next year, with U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito moving up to the ...

A look at the three candidates: Thune, 63, defeated then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 after arguing during the campaign that Daschle had lost his South Dakota roots during his years in ...