Senate Republicans are on the verge of breaking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s stranglehold over the confirmation ...

McConnell: “I know Chuck Schumer well enough to know that he’s probably beating the door down” for Gov. Andy Beshear to run ...

McConnell joked that he anticipated finding something to do after life in the U.S. Senate because “my wife doesn’t want me home for lunch.” ...

Somewhere between 12 and 16 (and still counting) political candidates in Germany and France have suddenly, mysteriously died ...

McConnell announced in February that he wouldn’t seek reelection, but has stopped short of endorsing a successor. That hasn’t stopped wealthy donors.

Fed-up Senate Republicans inved the “nuclear option” on Thursday to bypass Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s obstructionism. The invocation will allow them to quickly confirm President Donald […] ...

Senate Republicans on Thursday triggered the so-called “nuclear option” and changed the rules of the upper chamber to speed ...

Republicans changed Senate rules to allow President Donald Trump's nominees to be voted on in batches after months of ...

The Senate nears another "nuclear" showdown as Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., channels the tactics of leadership past in ...

Republicans have been pushing the rules change since early August, when the Senate left for a monthlong recess after a ...

Senate Republicans, in a bid to steamroll past the Democrats' blockade of President Donald Trump, changed the rules to make it easier to confirm nominees.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Friday called on President Trump to fire Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, over the ouster of Centers for Disease ...