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 ...

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - During Tuesday’s Walton County commission meeting, the board voted to direct the county attorney to draft a confirmation process for department heads and bring it ...

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 ...

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.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — It’s been a whirlwind two days, but John Thune is out of Washington, D.C. and back home “Always good to be in South Dakota, where I would always rather be, but it was an ...

WASHINGTON — After President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office and Congress concludes the inaugural pageantry and the post-inauguration lunch on Monday, the Senate will get back to work. The ...

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 ...