On This Day: Snow falls in Sahara for 1st known time
On Feb. 18, 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first known time. It fell a second time in 2016 ...
On This Day, Feb. 18: Snow falls in Sahara for 1st known time
On Feb. 18, 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first known time. It fell a second time in 2016 ...
New York Post10d
‘Shameless’ Dems embrace filibuster they once tried to abolish
Democrats have fallen back in love with the filibuster. Mere weeks into President Trump’s second term, Senate Democrats are already making liberal use of the obstructive maneuver, flying in the ...
This is a story about the filibuster. You should read it anyway
When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom ...
Washington Examiner11d
Democrats are conspicuously silent about changing filibuster rules now that they’re in the minority
Every time the Senate has changed hands in recent history, nine times starting with the 1980 elections, the party in power has threatened to scrap or at least limit the filibuster. This procedural ...
CNN22d
This is a story about the filibuster. You should read it anyway
Cartoon depicting a Senate filibuster by artist John T. McCutcheon, published in the Chicago Tribune, May 26, 1928. John T. McCutcheon/The Chicago Tribune/Library of Congress ...
THE WEEK3d
Wendy Davis' stunning filibuster of a Texas abortion bill
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 ...
‘Blow this place up’: Frustrated Democrats want the Senate to fight harder
“We’ve got to make things hotter,” acknowledged Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), adding that the furor in the party will ...