Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says putting the Senate into an extended recess to allow President Trump to make recess appointments to clear the backlog of his pending nominees is an ...

Barring any last-minute changes, the Senate will on Wednesday screen and confirm Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN) as the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). This ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) tore into President Trump on Wednesday after the commander-in-chief called on Grassley to scrap a tradition that Democrats have been ...

Republican senators, frustrated by what they see as Democratic delays, are exploring aggressive options to accelerate the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees, including potential rule ...

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee's reappointment of Stefan Pryor as acting commerce secretary is being challenged by the state Senate. The Senate argues that the governor lacks the authority to appoint an ...

Senate Republicans are not fans of allowing President Trump to utilize his recess appointment power to fill the hundreds of vacancies in the executive branch that are being left open as they head out ...

WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made good on his pledge to President Trump to get the Senate to confirm four highly controversial, anti-civil rights, and anti-LGBT judicial ...

EFCC under pressure as CSO demands report on missing $4bn refinery funds Concerns have also been raised over allegations that $1 billion of the funds was diverted to finance the All Progressives ...