Democrats express outrage over the nominees’ past statements, or policy positions, alarmed by what they have promised to do ...

As the U.S. struggles with a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in an affordable housing law to raise ...

As Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, sits for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday, ...

While the OGE director is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, director serve five-year terms to ensure that their tenures are not attached to the presidents who appointed them.

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About a year before the subprime mortgage meltdown brought the global financial system to its knees, a Harvard Law School professor made the case for launching a new regulator to protect consumers ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine critic who endorsed President Donald Trump after abandoning his own presidential bid, inched ...

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard to be the next director of national intelligence in a 52-48 vote that demonstrated President Donald Trump’s political control over Republican lawmakers, ...

A Senate bill remains alive that would require University of Hawaii medical school students to remain in Hawaii for two years ...

Voters gave Mr. Trump a Republican-controlled Congress, and those lawmakers are within their right to try to pass the president’s agenda through the legislative process. That doesn’t relieve either ...

President Donald Trump's choice to run the Department of Education, Linda McMahon, faces a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing ...

During my time in the U.S. Senate, regional leaders often complained that it seemed better to be America’s enemy than its ...