Trump’s eyebrow-raising Cabinet nominees and the threat of recess appointments are putting the incoming Senate leader between ...

The incoming Senate majority leader is going to have at least three fights on his hands to confirm Donald Trump’s latest ...

Taking to social media to speak out about recess appointments, Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D) suggested that this could ...

Governor Kristi Noem’s appointment as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is raising questions for some, but ...

John Thune of South Dakota, who Senate Republicans elected as ... Thune also has said that he is open to enabling Trump to make appointments using recess appointment authority. Under the authority, a ...

So far, it seems like the Senate’s leader-in-waiting and other Republicans are giving the president-elect wide latitude on ...

Recess appointments would allow Donald Trump to appoint his nominees while the Senate is not in session, skirting the ...

Some members of the Cabinet, like vice president and White House chief of staff, do not need Senate approval. But most of ...

Senators are continuing to debate whether to grant President-elect Donald Trump the ability to bypass the chamber's approval for his nominees.

Nominees can face a lengthy Senate vetting process before taking office, though Trump may try to upend that exercise in some ...

With President-elect Trump building his Cabinet, the idea of recess appointments has been floated, but what are they and how ...

President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Senate to allow him to use recess appointments to install his picks for high-level ...