UPDATE: The Senate confirmed Kash Patel as FBI director on Thursday. Sen. Mitch McConnell voted yes for the appointment. Senator Mitch McConnell, Kentucky's longest-serving senator, announced he would ...

The Senate leader’s iron rule held together a fractious GOP conference that ran from squishy centrist to hardline conservative — and somehow managed to deny Barack Obama the revolution he ...

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was one of three Senate Republicans to vote Monday against former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), President Trump’s nominee to head the ...

Despite his decades towering over Washington as a top GOP leader, he is now eclipsed by President Trump’s takeover of his ...

After being shocked by President Donald Trump's flurry of activity to slash and burn the federal government, progressive ...

The Senate confirmed Linda McMahon to lead the Education Department by a party-line vote of 51 to 45.

“I would ask Senate Democrats to imagine that they are Mitch McConnell in the minority ... would have to take time-consuming roll-call votes, debates and motions. Activists say Democrats ...