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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — It’s been a whirlwind two days, but John Thune is out of Washington, D.C. and back home “Always good to be in South Dakota, where I would always rather be, but it was an ...

Trump team enters agreement with DOJ to submit names for background checks. As Republicans senators returned to Washington after Thanksgiving recess to a renewed peppering of questions about President ...

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 ...