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

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

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 ...

John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who are all running to become the next Senate GOP leader, say they will do ...

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

With newly announced picks such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health & Human Services and Congressman ...

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

As Senate Republicans prepare to vote Wednesday on a new majority leader, Trump is already weighing in with demands for ...

President-elect Donald Trump has declared a strong intention to use recess appointments in his next term. What are recess ...

“Republican control of the Senate thus gives Trump the chance to use recess appointments in radically new way — basically, ...

Hence, Mr. Trump’s interest in bypassing them. Because the Founders had to travel to and from the national capital by horse, ...