Democrats hit back Thursday at President Donald Trump’s threat to fire thousands of federal workers if the government shuts ...

All Democrats were opposed. Then, under the new rules, the Senate voted 53-45, along party lines, to invoke cloture on the resolution, ending the filibuster on the four-dozen-nominee package. A final ...

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, ...

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JEFFERSON CITY — Discussion on the Missouri Senate floor was heated on Wednesday, where lawmakers were set to consider bills to redraw Missouri's congressional districts and amend the state's ...

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are moving closer to implementing a major change to Senate rules that would allow them to confirm scores of President Donald Trump’s nominees in batches, rather than ...

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 ...

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Is it time for another government shutdown showdown already? We went through the last one only five months ago, and then another just a few months before that. Each time this came back around, the ...

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In May and July of 2017, early in his first term, President Donald Trump unleashed flocks of shrieking tweets imploring the Senate to change its filibuster rule for legislative measures. He advocated ...