Update April 10 at 1:41 am UTC: This article has been updated to include background on Paul Atkins and to correct the vote count. The US Senate has confirmed US President Donald Trump’s nominee ...

The Senate voted 52-44 Wednesday to confirm Paul Atkins as the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Atkins is expected to be friendlier toward the financial industry than the ...

Trump officially nominated Isaacman, a billionaire private astronaut to lead NASA, shortly after taking office. American billionaire Jared Isaacman heads to Capitol Hill today for a Senate ...

Paul Atkins is just one oath away from taking over the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as President Donald Trump's pick to oversee the nation's securities sector — including whatever ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed George Glass, a former investment banker and diplomat known for criticizing China, as ambassador to Japan, one of several U.S. allies ...

Matt Mackowiak, a conservative political consultant and former Travis County Republican Party chairman, expects the race between Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and incumbent Sen. John Cornyn to ...

New Jersey native and billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, Trump's top pick to lead NASA, will have a seat in front of a Senate committee this morning in his next steps to becoming the lead of ...

SALEM Ore. (KPTV) - On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire voted unanimously to advance Senate Bill 83, which is another step in repealing a controversial wildfire ...

Before making his record-breaking, 25-hour speech on the Senate floor, Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he dehydrated himself 24 hours earlier so he wouldn't need to go to the bathroom. But this ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A proposal that passed the Tennessee Senate Monday could add specific language to the state's law that effectively bans abortion, reducing some of the vagueness surrounding it ...

The Senate basic education committee will launch an inquiry on the Department of Education’s policies and measures against bullying amid a recent case in a school in Quezon City which went viral over ...

John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely delay his appearance before the Senate’s health committee by ...