Three of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees faced sharp questions in the Senate during hearings Thursday ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Sen. Bill Cassidy has emerged as a central figure in the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s opinions about vaccine safety, both past and present, appeared likely to lead at least a few Senate ...

Johnson was headed toward another GOP majority of his own. And the Louisiana Republican, a self-described “nerd constitutional-law guy,” had become a fixture of Trump’s inner circle.

followed by GOP Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn. After three weeks of paralysis, Johnson grabbed the gavel. By all accounts, the congressman from Louisiana was the only candidate who hadn't made many ...

one of many incensed Democrats. “You don’t condition it. We didn’t do that for Louisiana; we didn’t do that for Florida. I’m hoping that that was just a dumb thing that [Johnson] said ...

"They've got a lot of revenue; they just misspend it all the time." House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, told reporters Monday he wants to see conditions tied to federal ...