A growing number of Trump's fellow Republicans in the US Senate, which has a constitutional duty to confirm or reject high-level presidential appointments, have called on the House panel to turn over ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with ranking member of the House intelligence committee Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., about president-elect Donald Trump's national security appointments.

If you take a step back – make that several steps back – it’s easier to understand what Donald Trump is doing. Why would he deliberately ignite a media firestorm over such controversial nominees as ...

The House Ethics Committee is expected to meet Wednesday to discuss whether its ethics report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, ...

Tulsi Gabbard, a military veteran and a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, is facing scrutiny over past remarks ...

Trump’s nominee for attorney general has been investigated by the House Ethics Committee and the Department of Justice. He ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he intends to nominate U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz as the next attorney general of the United States, an unexpected pick as the Florida ...

Pennsylvania's high court ordered state county election officials on Monday to not count "invalid" mail-in ballots in the U.S. Senate race between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and his Republican ...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) delivered a Senate floor speech on Monday denouncing Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General, and said he'll do everything in his power to ...

The Senate returns to Washington facing more tough decisions about controversial nominations by Donald Trump. It comes as the president-elect is also pushing to bypass the Senate entirely in ...

The Senate must turn back these nominations, and do so en bloc. The Gaetz and Kennedy nominations are apparently already in trouble, and more than enough has been written about them. Gaetz is an ...