Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies Jan. 29, 2025, at his confirmation hearing. President Donald Trump named RFK Jr. to serve as secretary of Health and Human ...

Arizona's Democratic senators have been on the losing end of every confirmation they opposed since President Donald Trump ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won a vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, clearing him to become a member of President Donald Trump's ...

Federal oversight by the U.S. Department of Education has often created bureaucratic obstacles rather than actually improving ...

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U.S. Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia filed a bill to permanently shutter the U.S. Agency for ...

Last month, Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in response to the ...

U.S. Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand voted against RFK Jr.'s nomination for DHHS Feb. 6. Another ...

The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

He claims unprecedented power over the budget, fires the leaders of government oversight agencies, and places vast ...

The order would direct the secretary of Education to create a plan to diminish the department through executive action,” CNN ...