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.

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 ...

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Every time the Senate has changed hands in recent history, nine times starting with the 1980 elections, the party in power has threatened to scrap or at least limit the filibuster. This procedural ...

They want to get rid of the filibuster so they can unilaterally transform the nation. When they don’t have congressional ...

The Laken Riley Act defeated the legislative filibuster again during a second procedural vote on Friday, amassing more than 60 votes to advance it to a final vote. By a margin of 61-35 ...

Then, at 11:18 a.m., Sen. Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat, took to the Senate floor and started what she hoped would be a 13-hour filibuster of the abortion bill. If Davis managed to keep the ...

In 2013, Senator Harry Reid triggered the so-called "nuclear option," which eliminated the filibuster for lower court nominees. At the time, Senator Mitch McConnell stated, "I say to my friends on ...

The filibuster gets a bad rap ... against a measure that he believed would draw the United States into the war against Germany in 1917. That’s consequential stuff. Chuck Schumer is full of ...

Despite the challenges of the past, this body is moving forward, and it is Senate Republicans who are leading the charge. We ...

You could take a separate long view of Senate history and look at it as a slow nibbling away at the filibuster. There have been these reform efforts through history. In World War One, they created ...