A partial government shutdown is expected over the weekend after senators failed to pass funding for the Department of ...

"The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session." – Article II, ...

My 7-year-old son headed inside from the bus, only to stop abruptly, pivoting right back out. “Going to play outside. We didn’t get recess today,” he shouted back at me. After a bit of digging, I ...

With just two days until Republicans vote for the next Senate majority leader, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn says the chamber should stay in session indefinitely if Democrats try and block Donald Trump's ...

President-elect Trump has urged the next leader of Senate Republicans to support him in making recess appointments as three prominent GOP members are battling it out to succeed their leader, Sen.

As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip ...

Ben Bowman was close to despondent. After coming home from kindergarten one day last school year, he told his mom, Nicole, that his class hadn’t been having its second recess period. He assumed it was ...