U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune was hot under the collar. It wasn’t just because of the August weather, or the crowd ...

Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is assuring his conference that senators won’t lose their power under a new Senate rule change on nominees.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he’s ready to change the chamber’s rules to allow quick confirmations of dozens of ...

Senate Republican leader John Thune said on Wednesday 10 September that there is "intensified interest" in passing ...

Republicans changed Senate rules to allow President Donald Trump's nominees to be voted on in batches after months of ...

Republican senators are ratcheting up their demands for President Donald Trump to put new sanctions on Russia, as the White ...

Confidence is fading that Vladimir Putin is serious about a deal after he escalated the war with drone attacks on a NATO member’s airspace.

The rules change will allow the Senate to confirm multiple nominees at once, helping to clear a backlog of nearly 150 nominees awaiting floor votes.

We look at the U.S. strike on a Venezuelan boat earlier this month, which has riled lawmakers, even Republican ones, who say the strike did not follow standard practices and policies.

Concerns about changing the rules, while understandable, shouldn’t prevent Republicans from doing so.

S.D., won’t commit to a Senate vote on legislation that would require the Justice Department to release files on the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. But he said that he believes ...