This graph shows cloture votes in the U.S. Senate, meaning the number of times Senators moved to cut off a filibuster. The giant spike at the end shows the period when Republicans lost the Senate ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) just finished his marathon "talking filibuster" (not technically a filibuster, because it's not really delaying a vote) of Obamacare, which started at 2:40 p.m. yesterday ...

Use of the filibuster leveled off in the 1990s, then exploded in the final few years of George W. Bush's presidency when Democrats regained control of the Senate. And following Obama's election ...

The graph above shows the Zone of Legislative Death as a white band. ... * The modern filibuster arose in 1975, when senators were no longer required to take to the floor to block legislation.

We haven’t had an excuse to talk about Republican abuse of the filibuster lately, so here’s a nice chart for you that spells it out. It comes from JS, a regular reader, and instead of just ...

In two parts. First, a useful Wikipedia chart showing how recent and a-historical the current Senate practice of filibusters for everything really is. The blue line, on the top, is the significant ...

Under George Bush, Democrats mounted filibusters on 38 of his nominees. That’s about five per year. Under Obama, Republicans have filibustered an average of 16 nominees per year.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., have been the target of progressives and the media for their repeated opposition to eliminating the filibuster.

Why did the Senate do away with filibusters for presidential nominations? One graph explains the reasons behind Sen. Harry Reid's decision Thursday. News. Home Page ; California; ...

“The same Dems who argue to keep the filibuster ‘for when we need it’ do not, in fact, use it when we need it,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) posted to X on Saturday.

The most famous filibuster in history was dramatized in the classic Hollywood 1939 movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." That one was fictional, but over the years there have been plenty of real ...

If the filibuster is abolished, any gains Democrats make from now to 2028 could be reversed as soon as the Republicans regain control. "You cannot create a weapon and then expect that it will ...