Otherwise, the Constitution provides that, “The president can nominate and appoint ambassadors, judges and other officers of ...

U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) announced the U.S. Senate passed a resolution honoring former Sen.

S.D., is now Senate majority leader; North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has been nominated to be Secretary of Interior; and South ...

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz announced Thursday he is withdrawing his name from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

Soon to be in the minority, Senate Democrats are ready to use whatever tactics are at their disposal to put up roadblocks for ...

U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, sponsored a resolution adopted by the Senate honoring the late Tim Johnson, a Democrat ...

South Dakota’s US Senators honored the late Tim Johnson with a resolution that passed unanimously in the Senate chamber.

Thune is a Mitch McConnell protégé, looked at with suspicion by the MAGA crowd, and considered more establishment ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell announced that he will chair the Senate Rules Committee as well as the Senate Appropriations ...

The Senate would be fundamentally weakened and profoundly diminished if it were to recess the Senate and allow the incoming president to make interim appointments unilaterally and unchallenged, as ...

Republican senators are pouring cold water on the idea that President-elect Trump could force the Senate into an extended ...