Trump wants the Senate to terminate its filibuster procedure to speed passage of Republican bills. Here's why it probably ...

The legislation was passed after negotiations brought five additional Democratic votes needed to invoke cloture.

Enough Democrats were set to vote for cloture on a new spending package to get over a 60-vote hurdle and set the stage to end the shutdown.

The United States Senate on Thursday invoked cloture to end the filibuster on the nomination hearing of President Donald Trump's nominee for the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, with a 51-49 ...

The Democrats’ slim majority in the U.S. Senate, a 50-50 split, has reopened discussion about that most-hated, also-loved and often confusing instrument of American power: the filibuster. PBS NewsHour ...

jockeying over what the final bill should look like. Starting with the dramatic announcement Saturday of an agreement between leaders and Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the last Democratic holdout, House ...

On this day in 1975, the Democratic-controlled Senate revised its cloture rule so that only three-fifths of senators — usually 60 — would be required to limit debate. An exception was carved out for ...

After all the dust settled from the 2020 elections, the U.S. Senate was effectively split down the middle for the first time in 20 years – 50 Republicans versus 48 Democrats and two independents who ...

Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court shined a spotlight on how the Senate works, but the debate is steeped in unfamiliar terms: filibuster, cloture, unanimous consent. Here is a guide to ...

The federal fiscal year ends this week, and once again Congress is scrambling to get its act together. And as the prospect of government shutdown looms, so does the wilder prospect of the government ...

On this day in 1975, the Senate, controlled by Democrats, revised its cloture rule so that three-fifths of senators — usually 60 — would be required to limit debate. The exception was the vote to ...