Staff Writer Denise Perez argues that the filibuster requires reform as it has evolved into a tool of obstruction for ...

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he would step down from his leadership post earlier this year, ending his historic ...

Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell.

A look at the three candidates: Thune, 63, defeated then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 after arguing during the campaign that Daschle had lost his South Dakota roots during his years in ...

The future of Donald Trump’s second term in office will be shaped inside a closed room in the United States Senate on ...

President-elect also nominates Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio for senior roles, while Republicans are projected to win House ...

The mild-mannered South Dakotan and top McConnell ally recently made efforts to patch up his relationship with ...

Donald Trump has won the public embrace of virtually every Republican currently in federal elected office. In private, ...

Donald Trump will begin his second term as president the same way he began his first—with Republicans controlling both the ...

The new Senate Republican majority is promising to leave the filibuster alone — even if it stands in the way of the Trump ...

With President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans winning control of the White House plus both chambers of Congress in the Nov. 5 election, the Democrats will have one important tool for ...

Mitch McConnell, 82, is the longest-serving Senate party leader ... McConnell will also be remembered for how the Senate ...