Facing Democratic opposition, the GOP has discarded a series of precedents and weakened minority power in order to vote ...

Opposition to ending the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule has softened, now that Republicans hold the majority in the upper chamber of Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online ...

The filibuster causes a lot of problems for Democrats. Historically used only in rare and extreme circumstances, it is now implemented against almost every single of piece of legislation. It only ...

Trump and Republicans control the process, Eric Garcia writes. Any shutdown would be because they refused to negotiate with Democrats ...

In May and July of 2017, early in his first term, President Donald Trump unleashed flocks of shrieking tweets imploring the Senate to change its filibuster rule for legislative measures. He advocated ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune will use parliamentary tactics to establish a new precedent for confirming batches of lower-level Trump nominees this Wednesday.

A political scientist explains why doing nothing right now is probably the best strategy for congressional Democrats.

Former Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., wanted Republicans to win the Senate last year in order to prevent Democrats’ pursuit of "raw political power." In his new book, "Dead Center: In Defense of Common ...

One week after Secretary of State John Kerry went on all five Sunday shows, it's now White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough's turn to do the same thing. The goal is still to convince people that ...