Senate Majority Leader John Thune will use parliamentary tactics to establish a new precedent for confirming batches of lower ...

Senate Republicans criticize Democrats for opposing their seven-week government funding extension after Democrats supported ...

Republicans are taking the first steps to change the rules of the Senate to confirm more of President Donald Trump’s nominees ...

In an interview, Thune called a change in Senate rules, which advanced along party lines, a middle ground for Republicans.

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

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) traded shots at each other Tuesday over who would be to blame for a government shutdown, something that ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters on Tuesday that Republican leaders are open to addressing the expiration of health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, but ...

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

Senate Republicans are on the verge of breaking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s stranglehold over the confirmation ...

Democrats ultimately pushed for more time to iron things out and secure support as the day stretched on, but Republicans ...

Republicans, furious at Democrats’ slow-walking of presidential nominees, have been huddling for weeks on proposed rule ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday poured cold water on the likelihood that bipartisan legislation to place heavy sanctions on countries that buy oil from Russia will be added to ...