The Senate is more than 10 hours into a vote-a-rama on the massive GOP policy legislation dubbed the “big, beautiful bill,” and Republicans are stalling for time awaiting a key ruling ...

This is the latest escalation in Trump’s monthslong petty war with the Ivy League institution after the Trump administration ...

In a Truth Social post Monday afternoon, the president claimed that the Japanese people and their government were “spoiled” ...

Republicans are using their majorities in Congress to push aside Democratic opposition, but they have run into a series of ...

On the evening of July 1, 1964, a weary but elated Lyndon B. Johnson walked into his White House residence after a day of frantic vote-counting on Capitol ...

Far-reaching legislation provides framework for many challenging issues in America even 60 years later. Read more about the history.

Before Booker's speech, the record-holder was Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes. That speech was widely condemned in retrospect, ...

In fact, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, from 1955 to 1964, there were just nine instances in which senators used the filibuster to block legislation, virtually all affecting civil ...

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers and a coalition of civil rights leaders Tuesday urged Congress to reform the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation next Congress. “Voting rights, ...

Fifty years ago this Tuesday, on June 10, 1964, the U.S. Senate voted to end a filibuster that had gone on for 54 days, blocking an up-or-down vote on a civil-rights bill. The Senate had never ...

Not until 1964 did the Senate successfully overcome a filibuster to pass a major civil rights bill." The historical office has not tried to count the total number of filibusters used, ...

Rep. Alma Adams, D-NC, tweeted: "From 1917 to 1994, half of the bills that were successfully filibustered in the Senate were Civil Rights legislation." PolitiFact NC checks her claim.