Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's pick to head the Department of Defense, could have enough votes to be confirmed, Donald ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) announced that he will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, increasing the nominee’s chances of becoming the next head ...

The process started going downhill in 1987, when the infamous Robert Bork hearings turned ugly and personal. A Republican, Bork was a federal appeals court judge and former U.S. solicitor general who ...

A group of top Senate Republican lawmakers introduced legislation on Friday to re-impose a Foreign Terrorist Organization designation on the Houthis, a signal that the issue is likely to be a top ...

As lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are preparing for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday, Iowa’s U.S. senators ...

I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: Donald Trump has ...

Miss., center, accompanied by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. speaks during ...

With President-elect Donald Trump set to be sworn in (indoors) in just three days, it’s Confirmation Time on Capitol Hill. A ...

If I had beene one of the senators questioning Pete Hegseth during his confirmation hearing, this is what I would have asked: ...

This expectation that a candidate should have a certain number of years of experience — it no longer applies in the age of AI," said Valerie Capers Workman.

Federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is in a Senate proposal from Republicans Thom Tillis and Ted Budd.

The tax and fee changes that Gov. Janet Mills put forward last week in her budget only add up to about $150 million in a ...