Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkeley is waging a largely one-man crusade to reform the Senate filibuster. He sees it as a way to help ...

As part of a handshake agreement to end the shutdown, Republicans in the Senate allowed an up-or-down vote on extending the ...

The Senate rejected the extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits, guaranteeing a steep rise in health care costs for ...

Historically, the filibuster was not an automatic blockade. The possibility of extended debate pushed senators toward ...

The most extended government shutdown in U.S. history has revived a familiar argument: The Senate’s filibuster is to blame ...

Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is that ...

From the column: "Eliminating it might avoid some shutdown showdowns, but it won’t solve the gridlock plaguing the Senate — ...

President Trump, pointing to former Attorney General Eric Holder's comments about Democrats potentially expanding the Supreme ...

Failed Senate votes on Obamacare fixes leave lawmakers divided on healthcare subsidies as Senate Minority Leader Chuck ...

Republicans blocked Democrats’ effort to extend the expiring subsidies while Democrats thwarted a G.O.P. proposal to replace ...

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 ...

Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, both Arizona Democrats, voted Dec. 11 with their party on a three-year extension of the ...