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 ...

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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 ...

Ironically, McConnell’s best interpersonal relationship with any president during his long political career was with Joe ...

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 ...

Donald Trump has moved speedily since winning the US presidential election to set the foundations of his second term in the ...