WASHINGTON -- For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is extremely rare. The only time a nominee by a new president was ...

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - During Tuesday’s Walton County commission meeting, the board voted to direct the county attorney to draft a confirmation process for department heads and bring it ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s demand that the Senate go into recess to allow his top appointees to take office without a confirmation vote would be a complete abdication of the chamber’s ...

In an alumni-faculty forumFridaymorning, University Provost and President-elect Christopher Eisgruber ’83 moderated a panel discussion on the current state of the judicial confirmation process. “Not ...

After President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office and Congress concludes the inaugural pageantry and the post-inauguration lunch on Monday, the Senate will get back to work. The first item ...

Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. One of the Senate’s most important responsibilities is to provide ...

Adam Pack is a contributor to the Daily Caller News Foundation. DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Senate Republicans are on the verge of breaking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s stranglehold over ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s demand that the Senate go into recess to allow his top appointees to take office without a confirmation vote would be a complete abdication of the chamber’s ...