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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is considering a run for US Senate, according to new reports. A run against Senator John ...

Senator Cornyn is Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and a member of the Armed Services and Judiciary Committees. He is also Vice Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee.

Republicans are cautioning that Tulsi Gabbard’s path to confirmation to lead the U.S. intelligence apparatus is narrowing as ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearings began Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee. He appears before the ...

Senators vetting Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary received an affidavit from a former sister-in-law alleging his second ...

WASHINGTON — Former Texas congressman John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the CIA, vowed to make the agency more muscular while keeping its work apolitical during his ...

A cloud of controversy has hung over Hegseth, but he now appears to be on track to be confirmed as Trump's defense secretary.

Pete Hegseth was sworn in to lead the Department of Defense on Saturday, after a narrow vote in the Senate. The vote on Friday night was initially 50-50, with Vice President JD Vance then casting the ...

John Cornyn ... from day one.” Cornyn told his colleagues he’d already spoken with Trump and his team about their goals and outlined an overhaul of the Senate committee process that he said ...

30—AUSTIN U.S. Senator John Cornyn ... to joining the Senate Foreign Relations and Budget Committees, Sen. Cornyn will continue to serve as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the ...

John Cornyn, a Texas senator ... and that the "Republican team was united behind President Trump's agenda." "It's a new day ...