With congressional Republican leadership on board and a mandate-level victory in the presidential election, recess appointments would be a perfectly valid option for President Trump.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says putting the Senate into an extended recess to allow President Trump to make recess appointments to clear the backlog of his pending nominees is an ...

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) irked longtime National Review writer Dan McLaughlin this week when he went to bat for President Donald Trump making recess appointments, which Republican leaders have so far ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Thursday floated allowing for recess appointments to speed up confirming a backlog of 161 administration officials tapped by President Trump.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is threatening to use what he says is his constitutional authority to adjourn both chambers of Congress to clear the way for recess appointments to his ...

As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday left the door open to adjourning Congress so President-elect Donald Trump can appoint his Cabinet nominees outside of the usual Senate confirmation process if ...

Last month's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting President Obama's January 2012 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board came at a delicate time, with a debate raging between ...

The U.S. Justice Department last week offered its first extended, public analysis of the controversial court ruling in Washington that invalidated President Obama's recess appointments to a federal ...