It’s a tale as old as time—or, rather, roughly as old as a seventh grader: The party controlling the Senate takes action to weaken the filibuster, and the minority party warns of a tyrannical ...

It was a full-on nuclear explosion. Just like the Pacific Testing Grounds near the Marshall Islands and French Polynesia. But this political blast tore through the Senate chamber. In November 2013, ...

Late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) detonated the first Senate "nuclear option" in 2013, curbing the filibuster to confirm executive branch nominees - except for the Supreme Court. Former ...

In the background of the Senate Republican struggle to give Donald Trump his One Big Beautiful Bill, something historic is going on, aside from the largest social-safety-net cuts ever made. In several ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. One of the oldest and most historically significant traditions in the tradition-encrusted U.S. Senate, ...

Senate Republicans are dropping to new lows to sidestep the filibuster and pass Donald Trump’s behemoth budget bill. In an effort to more painlessly pass Trump’s wildly unpopular tax and spending bill ...

Republicans are relying on rarely employed accounting methods to push Donald Trump's "one, big beautiful bill" through the Senate, and in doing so could upend established Congressional procedures ...

Sen. Cory Booker's impassioned oration against the policies of President Trump's administration — with the help of multiple fellow Democrats — didn't just break the record for the longest Senate floor ...