Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took up consideration of a measure in 2022 to shift to a watered-down “talking ...

House Republicans this week passed a government funding bill 217-213 without assistance from Democrats, losing only one vote from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

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 ...

If lawmakers don't reach a deal by midnight Friday, the federal government will shut down. Senate Democrats are now pushing ...

If the filibuster is the spanner in the works ... In contrast, the Senate GOP under McConnell had a simple strategy: Regain and maintain power — period. During the Obama era, that looked like ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Democrats in the Missouri Senate started a filibuster Wednesday afternoon to protest a wide-ranging public safety measure being considered by the legislature. Shortly after ...

The Senate votes late Thursday morning to break a filibuster on the nomination of ... in nature and not add to the deficit over a 10-year period. The mechanics just spelled out create nothing ...

“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 ...