In a vote of 29 to 24 senate republicans selected senator John Thune, from South Dakota to be their voice in congress.

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

Donald Trump's cabinet nominations have Washington buzzing -- especially his choice of bombastic former Rep. Matt Gaetz for ...

After a resounding election victory, delivering what President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans call a “mandate” to govern, ...

Trump on Thursday selected former Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. Collins, who ...

Trump’s eyebrow-raising Cabinet nominees and the threat of recess appointments are putting the incoming Senate leader between ...

Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.

The incoming Senate majority leader is going to have at least three fights on his hands to confirm Donald Trump’s latest ...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who ran for majority leader explicitly as a Trump lieutenant, made it plain he’d do whatever the new ...

Gaetz will get a chance to make his case for why he should lead the Justice Department, but Republican senators warn he faces ...

President-elect Donald Trump is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to ...

Republicans enjoy a mandate unlike any the party has seen since the 1980s and conservatives "cannot waste it," a Hill veteran ...