The filibuster can stop bills from reaching the Senate floor and lead to hours-long speeches. It can be hard to understand what a filibuster is, why we have it and how it impacts the country.

The filibuster can hold legislation hostage, stop bills from ever reaching the Senate floor, and lead to hours-long speeches in Congress, but it can be hard to understand what a filibuster ...

Filibuster Battle Avoided, For Now. By Bootie Cosgrove-Mather. May 24, 2005 / 4:59 PM EDT / CBS ... A filibuster is not to be confused with the peanut buster parfait at Dairy Queen or, ...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) seemingly dashed any hopes of Democrats abolishing the filibuster anytime soon when he wrote last week that the legislative maneuver was a “critical tool” to protecting ...

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Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd talks to Sarah Binder, political science professor at George Washington University and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about what the filibuster is, what the ...

The filibuster of judicial nominations has loomed since November as the top-billed Capitol Hill showdown of the current congressional term, and it was in such epic tones that Republican and ...

So what is a filibuster and where did it come from? You’ve probably been hearing the word “filibuster” flying around lately, with Senate Democrats set to use one.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) seemingly dashed any hopes of Democrats abolishing the filibuster anytime soon when he wrote last week that the legislative maneuver was a “critical tool” to protecting ...

The filibuster can stop bills from reaching the Senate floor and lead to hours-long speeches. It can be hard to understand what a filibuster is, why we have it and how it impacts the country.