The U.S. senator from Connecticut said presidents' "pardon and clemency power has operated in the shadows," and the time for reform had come.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut cast doubt Tuesday on nominee Pete Hegseth’s ability to run the Department of Defense, pointing to claims of financial mismanagement when President-elect Donald Trump’s pick ran a pair of veterans’ groups.

Adrian Peeler, whose drug sentence was commuted by President Biden before he left office, killed a Bridgeport woman and her 8-year-old son in 1999.

Sen. Blumenthal grilled SecDef nominee Pete Hegseth on his qualifications despite reaffirming current support for the job SecDef Lloyd Austin has done.

He stressed he would follow the law, even as he emphasized Trump’s desire to overturn the 1974 Impoundment Control Act that requires congressional approval to rescind spending.

Now that Donald Trump is president, there’s no appetite within the GOP for scrutinizing the myriad conflicts of interest in the White House.

Collins, a former Georgia congressman, defended President Trump during his first impeachment investigation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Chairman Jerry Moran, R-Kan., welcomes Doug Collins, President Donald Trump’s pick to be secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs,

Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget has refused to say Trump will follow the law that forbids him from blocking funds.

Former Georgia congressman Doug Collins told the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Tuesday he’ll reexamine whether the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) should provide abortions. Collins, tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the VA,

Live updates and latest news as the Trump administration prepares to take office next week. Follow live as Senate confirmation hearings continue for Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem.

Pam Bondi refused to acknowledge President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden in her Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. attorney general on Wednesday, intensifying Democratic concerns that the former Florida attorney general would be a rubber stamp for the White House.

After Trump's defeat, Vought founded the Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank. In speeches he made in 2023 and 2024, Vought described how he helped create legal justifications to prevent military leaders and government lawyers from obstructing Trump's executive actions, ProPublica reported.