The Senate voted 72-28 to confirm her nomination. She easily sailed through the Senate Agriculture Committee earlier this ...

In a rare show of bipartisan support for a Trump cabinet nominee, Ms. Rollins sailed through the confirmation process and ...

Edward Brooke went to Howard and is descended ... mores that when Saltonstall decided last week to retire from the U.S. Senate in a year’s time, the Negro state attorney general made a strong ...

Republican U.S. Sen ... READ MORE | "GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham announces committee assignments for 119th Congress." The longest-serving Black senator was Sen. Edward Brooke, a Republican from ...

After a unanimous vote from the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry on Feb. 3, Brooke Rollins is on her way to a Senate confirmation vote for U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has become the longest-serving Black senator in U.S. history, as the 119th Congress ... Before Scott, Republican Sen. Edward Brooke (Mass), who held office from 1967-79 ...