Sen. John Thune (R-SD) won’t assume his new role as Senate majority leader until the next Congress is seated Jan. 3. But he’s ...

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 ...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who ran for majority leader explicitly as a Trump lieutenant, made it plain he’d do whatever the new ...

Her nomination would require Senate confirmation. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, to continue in the leadership role in the ...

Gaetz will get a chance to make his case for why he should lead the Justice Department, but Republican senators warn he faces ...

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

Republicans enjoy a mandate unlike any the party has seen since the 1980s and conservatives "cannot waste it," a Hill veteran ...

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

Senate Republicans have elected South Dakota’s John Thune as the next Senate majority leader after rejecting public overtures ...