As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Thursday floated allowing for recess appointments to speed up confirming a backlog of 161 administration officials tapped by President Trump.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is threatening to use what he says is his constitutional authority to adjourn both chambers of Congress to clear the way for recess appointments to his ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks at a press conference calling on the administration to release the Epstein files in the U.S. Capitol building last week. File Photo by Annabelle ...

Trump and his Republican allies are talking about going around the Senate and using temporary recess appointments, which last no more than two years. Invoking that authority could result in a fight ...

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 ...