On Thursday, two versions of legislation aimed at addressing a looming premium rate hike for participants on the Affordable ...
Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is that ...
Ron Johnson's reversal came just after President Trump called on Senate Republicans to end the filibuster as a way to end the ...
The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...
The most extended government shutdown in U.S. history has revived a familiar argument: The Senate’s filibuster is to blame ...
WASHINGTON(AP) — Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats' unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate ...
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkeley is waging a largely one-man crusade to reform the Senate filibuster. He sees it as a way to help ...
The Republican scheme to redraw red-state congressional districts is a blatant, gloves-off power play to retain a House majority in the 2026 midterm elections. Well, sort of. Republicans are removing ...
To nuke the filibuster or not to nuke the filibuster? That’s the big question as we head into the sixth week of a record federal government shutdown. We keep hearing that the filibuster is a powerful ...