President Trump realizes that it’s getting late, and he is a man in a hurry.

Some of the funniest moments of Parks and Rec were improvised, and this 10-minute scene manages to outshine them all.

A VOTE LOOMS: Senate Majority Leader JOHN THUNE told fellow Republicans in a private lunch that he plans to hold a vote Friday that could pave the way for an end to the shutdown, according to two ...

The filibuster is keeping the government shutdown alive. Republicans hold a majority in the Senate, but filibustering Democrats have enough votes to prevent the GOP from reaching the 60-vote threshold ...

Senate Democrats voted to shut down the government for the 10th time Thursday, ensuring more paychecks will be lost and services unfunded. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) even brought up ...

There’s no good reason to hand Democrats such a strategic and tactical win amid the shutdown. Over the past day or so, the so-called nuclear option for the legislative filibuster has enjoyed yet ...

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) is using a lengthy filibuster speech to criticize President Donald Trump as Senate Democrats utilize the procedural tool to block passage of a GOP-backed measure to open the ...

Senate Republicans are increasingly chattering about changing the filibuster’s rules if Democrats do not end the shutdown, even though Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he opposes ...

Three weeks into shutdown gridlock, some Senate Republicans are expressing openness to a controversial solution: nuking the filibuster. “I know that’s being discussed,” Sen. Susan Collins, the chair ...

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) told reporters Tuesday that he would support Republicans using the so-called nuclear option to override the Senate filibuster to pass a bill to reopen the ...

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., told reporters on the 21st day of the government shutdown Tuesday that Democrats "ran on killing the filibuster, and now we love it." The Pennsylvania Democrat made the ...