Trump is challenging congressional Republicans to defy him as he says he will nominate controversial figures to his Cabinet.

Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, securing their hold on the government alongside President-elect ...

Plus, Sen. John Thune will be the next Senate majority leader, while President-elect Donald Trump continues to build his next ...

Republican lawmakers increasingly say not only that Trump has a mandate, but that his mandate is all that matters.

Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s nomination to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general has created a remarkable ...

Things will start looking up in California when one-party rule is ended and Republicans start having a say again. DeMaio is ...

Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamber’s next majority leader ...

Representative Michael Guest, the Mississippi Republican who chairs the ethics panel, said his committee only has ...

A look at the three candidates: Thune, 63, defeated then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 after arguing during the campaign that Daschle had lost his South Dakota roots during his years in ...

Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell.

For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is ...