Donald Trump was elected with a mandate last week. He's now using it to challenge Republican senators to confirm his Cabinet ...

Trump’s ridiculous Cabinet nominations will provide senators with a new test. If you had predicted before the election that ...

A look at the three candidates: Thune, 63, defeated then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 after arguing during the campaign that Daschle had lost his South Dakota roots during his years in ...

Thune beat out two other competitors, Sens. John Cornyn and Rick Scott, by gaining majority support from GOP senators in a ...

Republicans who criticized Gaetz in the past urged colleagues to keep an open mind about him as attorney general.

Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota was elected new Senate majority leader, replacing Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky ...

Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamber’s next majority leader. It makes ...

Around two dozen states regularly elected both a Republican and a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in the 1970s and 1980s. Only ...

Oklahoma's two Republican U.S. Senators did not choose the candidate preferred by President-Elect Donald Trump's inner circle ...

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss President-elect Trump’s choices for key national security roles, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as secretary of ...

Donald Trump loyalists are facing a battle to win over “p—ed off” Republican senators who will control the confirmation of the president-elect’s top team.

Sen. Rick Scott of Florida fell short in his bid to become Senate majority leader, with GOP senators selecting Senate ...