Recess appointments would allow Donald Trump to appoint his nominees while the Senate is not in session, skirting the ...

With a Republican trifecta on the horizon, Senate Democrats are working to confirm as many federal judges as they can in the ...

President-elect Donald Trump has declared a strong intention to use recess appointments in his next term. What are recess ...

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

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

The president-elect said the next Senate majority leader should be open to bypassing Senate confirmation for administration ...

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

Rick Perry knows what it’s like to work in Trump’s Washington, and he’s now working behind the scenes in the Texas ...

Lawmakers in the Texas House and Senate filed more than a thousand pieces of legislation Tuesday, offering an early look at ...

John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who are all running to become the next Senate GOP leader, say they will do ...