By Townhall Chicago News Staff
Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to keep Sen. John Thune as their leader heading into the next session of Congress, a broadcast report said.
The vote comes as Congress moves toward a lame-duck period with several unresolved priorities before the end of the year.
Thune has pointed to judicial confirmations, other presidential nominations and government funding as priorities for the remaining weeks of the current Congress, according to the report.
The report did not include a vote count or say whether any senator challenged Thune for the leadership post. It also did not specify a date for any pending government funding deadline.
Other Senate Republican leadership posts and any changes to committee assignments were not addressed in the report.
Congress is expected to continue work on nominations and funding legislation in the coming weeks. No floor schedule for that work was announced Wednesday.
