When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom whereby a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass legislation.

Democrats have fallen back in love with the filibuster. Mere weeks into President Trump’s second term, Senate Democrats are already making liberal use of the obstructive maneuver, flying in the ...

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 ...

Erick Erickson has laid out some of the reasons why conservatives should seek to keep the filibuster for legislation, and in the Senate, Orrin Hatch and Lindsey Graham have expressed opposition to ...

Joe Manchin (I-WV), who opposed nixing the filibuster during President Joe ... face of a grave threat to this institution's defining character, and she said no," McConnell said on the Senate ...

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 ...

Senator Anderson's proposal to reduce the majority needed to invoke cloture from two-thirds to three-fifths of those present and voting went down in the face of a predictable Southern filibuster ...

Federal Court Stops Biden Admin’s Title IX Gender Ideology Mandate Nationwide As I explained in “Don’t Bring Back the Judicial Filibuster,” the argument that reinstating the judicial ...