The word "filibuster" is absent from the U.S. Constitution. You also won’t find the word in the Senate rules. However, Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution permits the House and Senate to ...

By the early 20th century, the filibuster led President Woodrow Wilson to call the Senate “the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action.” ...

Five myths about the filibuster. January 7, 2022. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, arrives for a ceremony on the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the ...

Even with the filibuster still alive, Democrats have moved quickly to advance a sweeping portion of Biden’s agenda. First was a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill, and next up is a jobs package ...

Some will call the former senator a hypocrite for voting for a filibuster carve-out in 2021 that allowed the U.S. government to raise the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion and avoid default.

If the filibuster is abolished, any gains Democrats make from now to 2028 could be reversed as soon as the Republicans regain control. "You cannot create a weapon and then expect that it will ...

Merkley says that what he and others are proposing is "really a minor change." He is right. The history of the filibuster is, in many senses, one of minor changes.

With President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans winning control of the White House plus both chambers of Congress in the Nov. 5 election, the Democrats will have one important tool ...

President Trump urged Republican lawmakers this week to overrule the Senate filibuster and get on with passing his agenda. “The U.S. Senate should switch to 51 votes, immediately,” he tweeted ...

They favor the filibuster when it’s convenient for them, and they try to abolish it when it stands in the way of their far-left agenda,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune told The Post.

“The same Dems who argue to keep the filibuster ‘for when we need it’ do not, in fact, use it when we need it,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) posted to X on Saturday.

Five years ago, on April 7, 2017, a group of 27 Senate Democrats, then in the minority, signed a letter defending the filibuster and urging that it not be eliminated. Then-Sen. Kamala Harris was ...