President Donald Trump urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune to end "blue slip" tradition, claiming Democrats use it to ...

President Donald Trump is breezing past his predecessor on confirmations. Senate Republicans are set to approve a bloc of 97 ...

Republicans will confirm a bloc of eight dozen Trump nominees as soon as next week following an attempted blockade by ...

A progressive group is targeting two Senate Democrats and an independent senator who voted to confirm some of President ...

An informal custom gives Senate Democrats leverage on federal prosecutors even as Republicans have sought to ease other ...

President Donald Trump has renewed his plea for the Senate’s century-old “blue slip” process to be axed in a bid to ensure ...

The president has said he will continue to sidestep the longstanding Senate practice for certain judicial nominees by ...

The three being targeted are Senators John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan and Angus King, an independent who caucuses with ...

Under the practice, the Senate Judiciary Committee will not advance certain nominees unless both home-state senators return a ...

Virginia's Democratic senators intend to block President Trump's nominee, Lindsey Halligan, for U.S. attorney for the Eastern ...

Because the U.S. Senate is controlled by a Republican majority, Aaron Christian Peterson’s confirmation process is not ...

A progressive group is targeting two Senate Democrats and an independent senator who voted to confirm some of President ...