There are roughly 1,200 positions in the federal government that require Senate confirmation, including the senior officials who make up the president's Cabinet. The first Cabinet official was ...

U.S. senators on Wednesday broke an eight-month voting trend, as all 100 showed up to vote on pushing forward a bill that would remove restrictions on Social Security for government workers.

A senator must be at least 30, a U.S. citizen for at least nine years, and live in the state they represent. There are 100 U.S. senators, two from each state.

Going from chief executive to one of 100 in the Senate has been a struggle for some ex-governors who made the leap. Would Gov. Brian Kemp want to do i ...

Narrow partisan divides in the House and Senate have become the norm in recent decades, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of historical data going back to the 88th Congress (1963-65), the ...

The confirmation or denial process is a matter of 100 senators making judgment calls to determine whether a nominee is professionally qualified, exhibits leadership skills, ethically fit, morally ...