Miss., center, accompanied by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. speaks during the Senate Armed Services and Senate Foreign Relations GOP news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington,

Senate Republicans are expressing optimism that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon, earned the support he needs to be confirmed after he emerged mostly unscathed from his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

Republicans appear poised to confirm Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the government’s largest and most complex agency

chair of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, praised defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth‘s ability to communicate the global threats facing the United States in a confirmation hearing ...

Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono was criticized on social media for her questioning of President-elect Trump's secretary of Defense nominee, Pete Hegseth.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs in Iraq, talked to TIME ahead of Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing about his opposition to women in combat roles

Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday, seeking confirmation as the secretary of the interior.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Monday said President-elect Trump’s nominee for Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is “vulnerable” to blackmail from U.S. foreign adversaries and reiterated her stance that he is not “qualified” to run the Pentagon. “It would sow confusion because our leaders in the military would not know to what they could talk to…

President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for attorney general, secretary of state and several other key Cabinet posts are set to appear in front of Senate committees Wednesday for high-stakes confirmation hearings.

Testifying before the Senate Armed Service ... Pentagon as the United States faces threats from Russia, China, Iran and adversaries around the world. If approved by the committee, the full Senate ...

The Senate on Wednesday adopted the first amendment to the Laken Riley Act, as Republicans push for a legislative win to open the new Congress. The legislation in its current form would mandate federal detention of immigrants without legal status accused of theft, burglary and other related crimes. Senators on Wednesday voted 70-25 for an…

Many of Donald Trump's Cabinet picks have been meeting with senators individually. Now, they'll go this week before the committees overseeing the agencies that Trump wants them to run.