More than 10 percent of current senators first entered the chamber through appointment. Their numbers will soon grow.

Trump's nominees for secretary of State, attorney general, CIA director, Energy secretary and Transportation secretary went ...

Sen. Marco Rubio, President-elect Trump's pick to serve as secretary of state, testified at a confirmation hearing before the ...

Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio warned during his confirmation hearing Wednesday that it will take China less than 10 ...

Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to become secretary of state, found a mostly welcome ...

President Joe Biden notified Congress of his intent to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, the ...

Rubio appeared to be on a glide path to winning confirmation as secretary of state while Bondi looks poised to become the ...

The only real challenge Rubio faced came from sporadic protesters who would shout at him, sometimes in Spanish, before being escorted out. “Oh, I get bilingual protesters,” Rubio said after one such ...

A veteran of the Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio is widely seen as one of Trump's least controversial Cabinet picks and is ...

While touching on issues plaguing the Middle East, Latin America and eastern Europe, Rubio focused much of his five-hour ...

Sen. Marco Rubio, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of State, is widely expected to win Senate confirmation to the post.

Live updates on the Trump transition ahead of next week's inauguration. Follow the latest as Senate confirmation hearing ...