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

Last month, Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in response to the ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and other top Republican senators vowed to only vote for a permanent, rather than ...

Senate Republicans on Wednesday fired the opening salvo in the battle to implement President Trump’s agenda by advancing a ...

Senate Republicans easily pushed their budget resolution out of committee on Wednesday — the first step toward being able to ...

Many of President Trump's picks have been confirmed, but some of the most controversial ones have yet to see a Senate vote.

As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Canada should be the 51st U.S. state, erasing the 5,525-mile border the nations ...

“We’ve got to make things hotter,” acknowledged Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), adding that the furor in the party will ...

Powerless to stop President Trump or Russell T. Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled ...

The Senate voted to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, teeing up a final vote on his confirmation.

Both chambers need to pass an identical budget blueprint that will unlock the procedural powers to allow Trump’s border and tax package to bypass the Senate filibuster. But the House GOP’s ...