The Problem with Executing Spies Elon Musk Is an Essential Trump Employee Vice President Kamala Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio: “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe.” ...

The filibuster empowers the minority and frustrates the majority. Extended debate has always been a part of the way the Senate does its legislative business. Copied This week on the “Heritage ...

Back in the minority and seeking to stonewall President Donald Trump, Senate Democrats have transitioned into the latest phase of their love-hate relationship with the filibuster. Democrats ...

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 ...

Harry Reid is a former Senate majority leader from Nevada. A real fix for this country would be the abolition of the Senate filibuster in all its forms, allowing for a simple majority vote ...

Republican lawmakers failed to get the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. Not a single Senate Democrat voted in favor of the bill. Two Republicans and two Democrats were absent from the vote.

But we should take a moment to mourn the filibuster nonetheless ... direct election of its members had an even less democratic character than it does today. (The 17th Amendment is a scar on ...

“I love it now,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), who’s long advocated dismantling the legislative filibuster, said with a laugh. “We all like rules that help us, and right now that we're in the ...