Pressure is mounting on moderate Democratic senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to change Senate rules to advance legislation that the Biden Administration says is vital to protecting the right to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Senate was designed for serious debate, thoroughly vetting and refining laws before they are deployed to reshape the ...

The federal government has been shut down for over a month, and political finger-pointing has persisted since it began. Republicans claim that they have passed clean continuing resolutions that get ...

Maine Gov. Janet Mills said Thursday she supports keeping the filibuster in place, breaking with most members of the Senate Democratic Caucus she hopes to join as she launches a campaign to oust GOP ...

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., argued in an op-ed on Breitbart Monday that Senate Republicans should eliminate the filibuster to pass “America First” policies and prevent the “United Caliphate of ...