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.

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 ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Legislative Bill 626 did not pass the cloture vote in the second round of debate Thursday. In today’s cloture vote, there were 32 ‘yes’ votes, 15 ‘no’ votes, and Senator Merv ...

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 ...

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 ...

Republican lawmakers united Wednesday to reject a motion to proceed to a $1.2 trillion, eight-year bipartisan infrastructure package, saying they were uncomfortable with voting to begin debate on a ...

Reporting from Washington — As the Senate heads toward a showdown this week over President Trump’s nominee of Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, the stalemate threatens a history-making upheaval in ...

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 ...