The soft-spoken Hindutva hardliner who single-handedly resurrected the BJP in the 1990s turns 97 on November 8 ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that one of his top donors, Elon Musk, will co-lead the newly created ...

But in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, sessions were much shorter than a year, and they had months-long gaps in between them when members of Congress traveled home. The Constitution's Recess ...

To allow Trump to make the appointments, Republican senators would have to pass a motion of adjournment with a simple ...

“Republican control of the Senate thus gives Trump the chance to use recess appointments in radically new way — basically, ...

Neither Trump nor President Joe Biden has been able to make recess appointments throughout their presidencies — even when their parties had unified control of Congress and the presidency ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s call for so-called “recess appointments” of Cabinet ... which allows presidential appointees to be chosen while Congress is out of session and serve for ...

If Trump were to make an appointment during a recess in the first session of the new Congress, the appointment could last for almost two years, after which the individual could be appointed again ...

The House chief emphasized that the new laws demonstrate a shared commitment to enhancing national resilience and improving public services, even while the 19th Congress is in recess.

The last time a recess appointment was used was in 2012 under former president Barack Obama. That was before the Supreme Court ruled the appointments could not be made while Congress was in pro ...