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For more than a dozen years and multiple changes in Senate control, Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has been the chamber’s referee, acting as a nonpartisan enforcer of its rules and precedents in ...

Democrats warned that by ignoring the parliamentarian in this case, they are "going nuclear" on the filibuster. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., at the U.S. Capitol on May 13.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record this week for the longest speech ever made on the Senate floor, but it wasn't a filibuster. Here's why.

23 hours, 22 minutes: Length of Jefferson Smith’s filibuster in the 1939 movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” starring James Stewart. It would have been the record at the time.

The filibuster, a parliamentary practice in the U.S. Senate allowing members in the minority to block the will of the majority, has been around in one form or another since long before you were born.

Rosen remarked to another in 2021 that she supported suspending the filibuster's rules "in the case of protecting democracy," such as passing the voting requirements bill.

Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that she supports eliminating the Senate filibuster if that's what it takes to secure abortion rights nationwide by codifying Roe v. Wade.

In the recent past, the future of the filibuster rule appeared secure. As Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin retire, that’s clearly no longer the case.

South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond launched the longest-ever speaking filibuster — pontificating from the Senate floor for more than 24 hours — in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.