If a shutdown persists, Trump may order Republicans to kill the filibuster altogether. Will Democrats risk the loss of their ...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...

Democrats reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, a bill that would expand the federal government's authority to oversee the nation's elections. Democrats have tried repeatedly to get this ...

WASHINGTON -- The Arizona Democratic Party's executive committee formally censured Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Saturday morning as a result of her inaction on changing the filibuster rules to pass voting ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, their latest long-shot attempt to revive the landmark law ...

The Associated Press/Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks with reporters before a key test vote on the For the People Act, a sweeping bill that would overhaul the election system and ...

The conservative activist's quote about the landmark legislation circulated online after he was fatally shot in September 2025.