WASHINGTON -- For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is extremely rare. The only time a nominee by a new president was ...

The senate confirmed Madison Troup as speaker of the senate, Shrinidhi Sriram as chief of staff, Sammy Lee as chief ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s demand that the Senate go into recess to allow his top appointees to take office without a confirmation vote would be a complete abdication of the chamber’s ...

After President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office and Congress concludes the inaugural pageantry and the post-inauguration lunch on Monday, the Senate will get back to work. The first item ...

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - During Tuesday’s Walton County commission meeting, the board voted to direct the county attorney to draft a confirmation process for department heads and bring it ...

Adam Pack is a contributor to the Daily Caller News Foundation. DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Senate Republicans are on the verge of breaking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s stranglehold over ...

Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. One of the Senate’s most important responsibilities is to provide ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s demand that the Senate go into recess to allow his top appointees to take office without a confirmation vote would be a complete abdication of the chamber’s ...