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 ...

Senior White House adviser Calley Means said Thursday that “conversations are ongoing” amid doubts over whether his sister, surgeon general nominee Casey Means, has enough votes in the Senate for ...

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense has continued to barrel toward confirmation, additional stream of details of his ...

Christina Nolan, a veteran federal prosecutor and nominee to be on the Vermont Supreme Court, takes questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 13.

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 ...