In a rare procedural move, the House and Senate briefly convened in mostly empty chambers today to prevent President Donald ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) will be traveling to Europe later this month with a delegation of Senate GOP freshmen. The senators will be making stops in Denmark, Norway, and Finland, ...

The Senate used to run on deals involving everything from pipelines to feral cows. Reviving them could be the first step to fixing politics.

Illinois, said President Donald Trump is "installing MAGA loyalists as interim U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation," ...

McLaughlin, however, took issue with Lee’s pushing for recess appointments. “At that point, the Senate may as well disband.” ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) faces a difficult test in rallying GOP colleagues to change the Senate’s rules to ...

Congressional Republicans aren’t ready to cede power to President Donald Trump to swiftly install nominees during recesses ...

Now, the two men are headed toward a fall rematch with much higher stakes: whether to keep the federal government open past a Sept. 30 funding deadline. Despite decades of history between them, their ...

The president accused Senate Democrats of using confirmations of more than 150 of his nominees as leverage for funding deals.

Lawmakers have left Washington for the annual August recess, but a few weeks of relative quiet at the U.S. Capitol can't mask ...

The dramatic collapse in talks over the weekend doesn't bode well for the tougher job lawmakers are facing of funding the ...