When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom whereby a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass legislation.

Erick Erickson has laid out some of the reasons why conservatives should seek to keep the filibuster for legislation, and in the Senate, Orrin Hatch and Lindsey Graham have expressed opposition to ...

Harry Reid is a former Senate majority leader from Nevada. A real fix for this country would be the abolition of the Senate filibuster in all its forms, allowing for a simple majority vote ...

Incoming Senate GOP Leader John Thune (R-SD) vowed that the filibuster will be "safe under Republican control," even if it may stand in Trump's way. “I find it ironic that a party that has spent ...

Federal Court Stops Biden Admin’s Title IX Gender Ideology Mandate Nationwide As I explained in “Don’t Bring Back the Judicial Filibuster,” the argument that reinstating the judicial ...

The filibuster empowers the minority and frustrates the majority. Extended debate has always been a part of the way the Senate does its legislative business. Copied This week on the “Heritage ...