Congressional Republicans aren’t ready to cede power to President Donald Trump to swiftly install nominees during recesses ...

The U.S. Senate began its month‑long recess Saturday night amid negotiations to advance the nomination of dozens of President ...

More than 150 of President Donald Trump's nominees for positions throughout the federal government await Senate confirmation ...

Lawmakers have left Washington for the annual August recess, but a few weeks of relative quiet at the U.S. Capitol can’t mask ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says putting the Senate into an extended recess to allow President Trump to make ...

A stalemate over the pace of confirmations has delayed the Senate’s yearly August recess for now as President Donald Trump ...

As Congress begins its summer recess, concerns grow over its ability to pass a full-year budget by the end of September, with ...

President Trump doubled down Thursday on his call for the Senate to stay in session and confirm his nominees before breaking for its annual August recess. “The Senate must stay in Session, ...

Fed-up Senate Republicans are starting to whisper about recess appointments again as Democrats stonewall them on nominees, ...

Senate Republicans are weighing whether to heed President Trump’s call to cancel some or all of the August recess to approve key nominees or to use the full month to go home and sell the party ...

Congress has passed some of President Donald Trump's top priorities in the first six months of the second Trump administration but with the August recess just around the corner, President Trump is ...