Davis rose to national (and Texas-wide) prominence for staging an 11-hour filibuster against a sweeping anti-abortion bill in the Texas legislature. The package of restrictions included a ban on ...

Then, at 11:18 a.m., Sen. Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat, took to the Senate floor and started what she hoped would be a 13-hour filibuster of the abortion bill. If Davis managed to keep the ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators ...