President-elect Donald Trump wants the Senate to bypass approval for his Cabinet choices. How is that possible? We'll explain ...

As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip ...

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 ...

Trump has garnered quite a bit of attention with Cabinet picks for his coming administration. Supporters and critics alike have clung to the edge of their seats as Trump tapped the ...

President Donald Trump’s frustration with his long list of stalled nominees is about to land back in the lap of the Senate. And Republicans are still prepared to change the chamber’s rules ...

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) irked longtime National Review writer Dan McLaughlin this week when he went to bat for President Donald Trump making recess appointments, which Republican leaders have so far ...

Senators are starting to return to their home states today after Senator Thune and Senator Schumer failed to reach an agreement in order to speed up the confirmation process for some of President ...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that, at its heart, is a question of semantics: When is a Senate recess actually a Senate recess? Stemming from a January 2012 Obama appointment of ...

Last month's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting President Obama's January 2012 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board came at a delicate time, with a debate raging between ...

Update: 2:45 p.m., January 25th -- White House press secretary Jay Carney called the court's ruling "novel and unprecedented," saying that it "contradicts 150 year of practice by Democratic and ...