Senate committees on Thursday approved a handful of Trump Cabinet nominees setting them up for approval by the full chamber.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as the next CIA director, approving the second high-level ...

WASHINGTON — Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin moved a step closer to confirmation ... where Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) will decide when to bring the nomination up ...

Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump’s nominee for EPA administrator, cleared a hurdle Thursday on his way toward Senate confirmation. The Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-8 to ...

He has offered a vision for a more aggressive spy agency, and his focus on the threat from China is widely shared by Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

WASHINGTON — Former Long Island congressman Lee ... Zeldin also agreed to work with several of the Republican senators on local environmental issues, such as concerns that Sen. John Curtis ...

John Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump's first term and is the first person to have held that ...

Zeldin has little experience heading an agency. Former U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Long Island Republican and President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin sat ... He pressed Zeldin to disclose whether he believes climate change is an existential threat. By contrast, Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, praised Zeldin ...

Lee Zeldin said Americans deserve a clean environment “without suffocating the economy” during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a ...

Ratcliffe, 59, is the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.