Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat, took to the Senate floor and started what she hoped would be a 13-hour filibuster of the ... would ban all abortions after 20 weeks, require that doctors ...

The Senate voted on a key procedural motion regarding the House-passed stopgap spending bill on Friday. If a measure is not ...

Even before Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had finished his 21-hour almost-filibuster, his feat of stamina was being compared and contrasted with other recent classics of the genre: The 13-hour ...

Ex-independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema called out several of her former Democratic colleagues over their apparent ...

Former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster in opposition to landmark civil rights legislation remains the longest in history at just over 24 hours. Last month, Senate Democrats ...

It is reopening old wounds they had hoped to move past, too. After an ultimately unsuccessful effort to eliminate the filibuster during former President Joe Biden’s term roiled Democrats ...

Harry Reid is a former Senate majority leader from Nevada. A real fix for this country would be the abolition of the Senate filibuster in all its forms, allowing for a simple majority vote ...

Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) had a heated exchange with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other Democratic ...

When Trump first took office, Cruz pushed to overhaul the filibuster because he thought Democrats would eventually do the same. He now admits he was wrong. The Arizona senator clashed with fellow ...