Senate Republicans on Wednesday fired the opening salvo in the battle to implement President Trump’s agenda by advancing a budget resolution focused on immigration and military priorities, putting ...

The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

Last month, Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in response to the ...

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.

Senate Republicans defeated that proposal by ruling it out of order. Urging opposition to the amendment, Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) argued that it would “unnecessarily slow down ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won a vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, clearing him to become a member of President Donald Trump's ...

Democrats have fallen back in love with the filibuster. Mere weeks into President Trump’s second term, Senate Democrats are already making liberal use of the obstructive maneuver, flying in the ...

The courts may continue to intervene, as some already have, and it is likely that the administration will often lose in those ...

It’s not clear if Canada wants to become a U.S. state, though technically it would be possible without its buy-in ...