Trump wants the Senate to abolish the filibuster blocking legislation such as ending the shutdown. Here's why even his ...

Trump is ramping up pressure on Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster—an action known as the “nuclear option.” ...

The filibuster slowly evolved, starting in 1805 or so, but its major debut was in 1837. That was when a bunch of Whig ...

Whenever the gavel switches from the hands of one party to the other in the Senate, lawmakers engage in a public round of debate about a long-established political tradition — the filibuster. With the ...

The peculiar US political phenomenon known as the filibuster is once again in focus. The filibuster is the prerogative ...

It follows a Congress that has already seen Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) break the Senate floor speech record, the longest House floor vote in modern history, the most votes taken in a “vote-a-rama,” and ...