Plus, Sen. John Thune will be the next Senate majority leader, while President-elect Donald Trump continues to build his next ...

House Republicans will maintain their hold on the lower chamber next year, giving the GOP a political trifecta in Washington, ...

Republicans will have a 53-seat majority in the Senate next year, giving them room to lose a few votes. Immediately after his ...

Trump announced several controversial cabinet nominees, including Democrat-turned-Republican Tulsi Gabbard for director of ...

Senate won’t confirm, say, Matt Gaetz as attorney general? Just wait until they leave — maybe even if they don’t want to.

Voters have given the once-fractured House GOP a second chance at leading by delivering Republicans another razor-thin House ...

Will he or won’t he go along with Donald Trump’s plan to jam down the Senate’s throat his controversial Cabinet and other ...

Republican Senate control means Trump will more easily be able to push through his own nominees for cabinet positions and ...

Republicans have won enough seats to keep control of the House of Representatives, ABC News projects, clinching a unified GOP ...

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota is one of the most powerful people in Washington that folks outside D.C. have never heard of.

Sen. John Thune​ of South Dakota won on the second round of voting against Sen. John Cornyn​ of Texas in the race for Senate ...