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.

Conn., accused attorney general nominee Pam Bondi of dodging earlier questioning on the legitimacy of the 2020 election while questioning her independence from President-elect Trump.

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.

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget director is declining to commit to doling out congressionally approved funds, specifically U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

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

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.

Himes said he will continue to advocate for his constituents in Connecticut’s Fourth Congressional District, in the southwestern part of the state, even as he and other officials will act as a bulwark against Trump’s agenda.

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget director is declining to commit to doling out congressionally approved funds, specifically U.S. military aid to Ukraine. Russell Vought fa

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.

If confirmed again as White House budget director, Russell Vought would likely do more than oversee spending, policy and regulations. Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as budget director in Donald Trump's first term,

an event that led to Trump’s first impeachment. “I will always commit to upholding the law," said Vought, an answer that did not satisfy Peters. As the hearings continued, Vought's answer changed somewhat when Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.,