McConnell joined Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, moderates from Maine and Alaska respectively, in creating what ...

Pete Hegseth's lawyer dissected and refuted a new affidavit from the defense secretary nominee's former sister-in-law in a ...

Pete Hegseth’s nomination hearing on Tuesday ... million people with a budget of $850 billion,” Hegseth told Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.). “What I do know is that I’ve led men and women.

The Florida context From Florida Phoenix Florida U.S. Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody both voted to advance Hegseth's nomination. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday advanced the ...

Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth recently survived a Senate procedural vote enabling him to be considered for the ...

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott stood by President Trump’s embattled Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth in a nail biter Friday night on the Senate floor.

An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of Defense ...

The Senate is set to confirm South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, as ...

Hegseth is the fighter we need and the right ... and I’ll do everything I can to support their mission. Republican Rick Scott represents Florida in the United States Senate, is a member of ...

CNN's political commentators Scott Jennings and Karen Finney join CNN's Dana Bash to give their takeaways of Pete Hegseth's Senate confirmation hearing. DANA BASH: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's ...

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Trump’s most “unconventional” cabinet nominee (in the words of Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee), but when Pete Hegseth took ...