Last month, Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in response to the ...
The Freedom to Vote Act sets national standards ... are stalled for partisan politics. The filibuster is a loophole, historically used to block civil rights legislation. The original Senate ...
When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom ...
Byrd was famously a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act, before publicly admitting ...
A bipartisan bill to crack down on illegal immigration narrowly overcame its second and final 60-vote filibuster in the ... The Laken Riley Act would require federal authorities to detain illegal ...