U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who will be Maryland’s senior senator in January, knows this is “a precarious moment for the country” and he and other Democrats are ready to ...

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

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

Just hours after Republican Sen. John Thune was elected as the incoming Senate majority leader on Wednesday, President-elect ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell didn’t ruin Congress. That distinction rests with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his band of ...

After a resounding election victory, President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans say they have a “mandate” to govern.

Donald Trump's history with attorneys general helps explain his slapdash decision to put Rep. Matt Gaetz on the job.

Meanwhile, in the House, Republicans reelected Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina to lead the National Republican ...

South Dakota Senator John Thune will lead the new majority, followed, in pecking order, by Wyoming's John Barrasso as ...

In the hours after President-elect Donald Trump announced that vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was his pick for ...