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The affable traditional conservative from South Dakota is the first new chief of the Senate G.O.P. in nearly two decades. He will confront a challenge managing President-elect Donald J. Trump's [...]

The question of whether the president-elect would back the speaker for another term has hung over Republicans, especially after recent tensions. But the endorsement does not lock up the job [...]

Past efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy, including basic things like selling off unused government buildings, have come up short. Republicans are set to try again. When the Newt Gingrich-led [...]

With the vote, the Senate approved its 235th lifetime judge of President Biden's tenure, besting his predecessor by a single judgeship. The Senate confirmed on Friday the 235th lifetime federal [...]

The Senate passed the measure, sending it to President Biden's desk, shortly after the midnight deadline for funding to lapse. The Senate approved a spending measure early Saturday to keep [...]

A Republican backlash to the speaker's plan to temporarily fund the government has sparked new talk of ousting him, and highlighted the challenges he will face if he manages to [...]

The president-elect weighed in against the huge spending package after Elon Musk had spent the day warning Republicans not to support it. The blowup left the compromise on life support. [...]

President Biden and House Democrats objected to the bipartisan measure that would immediately give President-elect Donald J. Trump about two dozen new judicial seats to fill. The House on Thursday [...]

The legislation would create more than 60 new federal court seats over the next decade, giving the Trump White House a first shot at filling dozens of new vacancies. White [...]

In a letter, the Democratic leader said members of his party would work with Republicans to consider the president-elect's nominees -- but asserted they should undergo traditional Senate vetting. The […]

President-elect Donald J. Trump is threatening to challenge the institution's historic role, and the Constitution, with his prospective nominees and threats to push the boundaries of executive authority. President-elect Donald [...]

The Senate majority leader is staying out of Republican turmoil over the more contentious picks for strategic reasons. Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and majority leader for a [...]

The last five presidents have all had periods where both the House and the Senate were in friendly hands -- but most lasted just two years before the backlash set [...]

The president-elect's choice of combative loyalists who could have trouble being confirmed has raised constitutional questions about executive power and the Senate's prerogatives. President-elect Donald J. Trump's bid to stock [...]

The South Dakota Republican failed in his first try for the Senate but came back to defeat a chamber leader. Now he will be the leader himself. John Randolph Thune [...]

The institutionalist South Dakotan emerged victorious over a right-wing, MAGA-backed challenge from Senator Rick Scott of Florida. Republicans on Wednesday elected Senator John Thune of South Dakota, their No. 2 [...]

The president-elect is to visit Capitol Hill on Wednesday as Republican senators elect a majority leader. His staffing decisions are already depleting the narrow majority the G.O.P. expects in the [...]

The loss of the White House and the Senate majority will end Democrats' ability to fill judicial vacancies come January. They say they want to confirm as many as possible [...]

With a decisive margin in the Senate, Republicans, who have shown their willingness to accommodate the president-elect, will have the numbers to overcome divisions over his personnel and policies. Republicans' [...]

After picking up seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana and winning an unexpectedly close race in Nebraska, the G.O.P. sealed a majority. Tight races in swing states will determine [...]

After two years and a multibillion-dollar barrage of political attack ads, the fight for Senate control is down to a handful of races, with Republicans holding a clear edge but [...]

A G.O.P. House and Senate could advance Trump-backed legislation and nominees, but thin margins and the filibuster could pose roadblocks and cause Republicans political trouble. Former President Donald J. Trump [...]

The novice Republican candidate's honesty has come into question in a race that could decide Senate control. Tim Sheehy, the novice Republican candidate in perhaps the most important Senate race [...]

Carl Hulse has covered congressional campaigns for four decades. Much has changed, but one thing remains constant: Journalists must be ready for the unexpected. The first Senate race I covered [...]

Once able to win on the prairie, the Democratic Party sees the Senate race in Montana as a final test of whether it can still be successful in heavily rural [...]

Congressional leaders deferred a debate over sending federal money to respond to Hurricane Helene until after the election, delaying a potentially messy political fight. When congressional leaders decided not to [...]

With Democrats waging an uphill battle to hold the Senate, the vice president, should she win, could end up facing a Republican firewall with veto power over her cabinet, court [...]

They hope to use the time after the election to approve judges, but Senator Durbin says their aggressive efforts have already produced a remarkable demographic shift on the federal courts. [...]

Both Republicans and Democrats opposed the stopgap funding bill, which was tied to new rules requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. The House on Wednesday defeated a [...]

The House speaker faces a choice of cutting a deal with Democrats or bowing to conservatives and Donald Trump and shutting down the government just before the election. With a […]

The speaker's first effort to avert a government shutdown ran into a buzz saw of opposition from both far-right and mainstream Republicans. Speaker Mike Johnson's initial plan to avert a [...]

Clashes over both the duration of a stopgap bill and whether it should include a noncitizen voting measure demanded by the G.O.P. could force a government shutdown at the end [...]

The president's allies in the chamber he so revered feared he would drag them down and spoil his own legacy, and played a more assertive role than was previously known [...]

The vice president forged important relationships in her four years on Capitol Hill, but she cast some of her most significant votes after moving to the White House. Follow the [...]

As they gather to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris, top Democrats say their candidates -- who they feared would be dragged to defeat by President Biden -- now have [...]

A new book by the former speaker details her clashes with the former president, but it was written before her most recent exercise of political might: helping persuade President Biden [...]

Incumbents who had feared President Biden would drag them down to defeat say the electoral environment has improved rapidly since he left the race. Senator Martin Heinrich, a two-term Democrat [...]

The former speaker has been marshaling her knowledge of the political map, polling data and fund-raising information to press her case with President Biden that his re-election is in serious […]

The president has given no indication that he is changing his mind about staying in the race but is said to be more willing to listen to the case for [...]

J.D. Vance, a newcomer to the Senate from Ohio, stood on the chamber floor in April and scolded his more experienced colleagues for their desire to continue backing Ukraine in [...]

The majority leader has been caught in an awkward spot as he balances his role as President Biden's Senate champion with his determination to hold the majority and the White [...]

It's a change from 2016, when House Republicans were the preferred candidates. At least two senators -- J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio -- are on the short list for the […]

For Donald F. McGahn II, the former White House counsel, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, sweeping anti-regulatory rulings are the big payoff of their drive to reshape the [...]

The combination of President Biden's debate performance and adverse Supreme Court rulings left Democrats reeling and in despair with elections not far off. Democrats confronted a nightmare scenario on Friday [...]

The victory by the MAGA lawmaker in the conservative eastern part of the state put her on track to another term in the House, after she abandoned a more politically [...]

Democrats sought to quickly reinstate a ban on gun bump stocks after a Supreme Court ruling. It was the latest Senate floor fight to end in a predictable stalemate. In [...]

Democrats failed in their effort to override last week's Supreme Court ruling with legislation, but saw some political benefits to the clash. Senate Democrats failed on Tuesday to overcome Republican [...]

Democrats made what they knew was a doomed attempt as they faced pressure from the left to do more to try to hold the court accountable. Senate Republicans on Wednesday [...]

They say their options are limited by the court's status as a separate branch of government and deep Republican opposition. Senate Democrats are facing intensifying pressure from the left for [...]

To date, the effort has not produced results, as the Republicans who have promised to hold up nominees and legislation are the ones who usually oppose them anyway. Senator Rick [...]