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.

The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

World history is full of examples of governments that unless they have limits and controls and checks get really out of control. And the extended debate, the filibuster, that's part of that system ...

Former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster in opposition to landmark civil rights legislation remains the longest in history at just over 24 hours. Last month, Senate Democrats ...

completely disconnected from Senate practice and history, requires that the legislative filibuster and the judicial filibuster stand or fall together. After the hours-long ban took effect at ...

It certainly couldn’t withstand much pressure. For better or for worse, the legislative filibuster has survived the most vehement of partisan rancor. Its judicial cousin, by contrast ...

I encourage you to take a quick glance at my book Filibustered!, which lays out the history in the early phases of the Senate. There was no such thing as a filibuster. There was an understanding ...