The process started going downhill in 1987, when the infamous Robert Bork hearings turned ugly and personal. A Republican, Bork was a federal appeals court judge and former U.S. solicitor general who ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Friday that he would vote to confirm Pete Hegseth to lead the U.S. Department of Defense.

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MSNBC's Charlie Sykes implored opponents of President-elect Donald Trump to try a new tack of opposition ahead of a second ...

I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: Donald Trump has ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) won the gavel to lead the 119th Congress with the support of President-elect Donald Trump behind his candidacy. But Johnson says emphatically that Trump did not infl ...

While Trump's Cabinet nominees play to their audience of one, it’s Democrats’ responsibility to play to the audience that ...

If I had beene one of the senators questioning Pete Hegseth during his confirmation hearing, this is what I would have asked: ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on President-elect Trump’s defense secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, to divest from thousands of dollars worth of defense company stocks held by his wife, ...

The Senate will begin voting on President-elect Donald Trump’s top nominees in the coming week, with Republicans hoping ...

Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as our 47th president of the United States. He truly has an opportunity to have a remarkable ...

On "Forbes Newsroom," GOP Strategist and Ballard Partners Partner Adam Goodman discussed the confirmation hearings for ...