Senate Republicans aired frustrations Tuesday after Vice President-elect Vance and other party members skipped votes Monday, greasing the skids for Democratic-backed judicial nominees to be greenlighted as part of a final push to fill the bench with lifetime appointees before President-elect Trump takes office.

Republicans on Tuesday ripped JD Vance, Marco Rubio and others for their absences from the chamber, which allowed Senate Democrats to ram through key Biden judicial nominees. Vance (R-OH), the vice president-elect,

Procedures that would typically be done in a matter of minutes were expected to drag on for hours, with nearly 20 votes on nine nominees.

As President-elect Donald Trump digs in on his pick of Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Republican senators are divided over how much information they will demand to move his confirmation — and how mu

Matt Gaetz, has little chance of being confirmed, according to multiple Senate Republican and people around Trump. And they’re privately hoping Trump doesn’t make them walk the plank. That message, according to people who were granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue,

House Leader Hakeem Jeffries won reelection Tuesday as the Democratic leader, receiving support from his colleagues despite the party's inability to win back majority control of the chamber in the November election.

Matt Gaetz has been making calls to Republican senators ahead of a likely difficult confirmation process in 2025.

Gaetz resigned from Congress after being nominated as the next U.S. attorney general by President-elect Donald Trump.

Whether Matt Gaetz ever becomes attorney general of the United States, he no longer represents Florida’s 1st Congressional District, having resigned from the seat last week following Donald Trump’s announcement that he was nominating him to lead the U.