Voters gave Mr. Trump a Republican-controlled Congress, and those lawmakers are within their right to try to pass the ...

A U.S. president has the authority to not spend (or impound) funds provided by Congress, but a legal procedure must be ...

In the short term, it’s brilliant. That’s a different story. Trump’s tally of approximately 60 executive orders in his first ...

Analysis: Democratic leaders are under more pressure than ever to play hardball with a government shutdown, writes John Bowden ...

(Getty Images ... The Senate’s filibuster rightly comes in for its share of blame, but that cannot explain the full force of failure. While numerous far-reaching legislative actions were ...

This year, the Nebraska Republican Party again identified lowering the filibuster threshold — set currently at two-thirds of the 49-member Legislature, or at least 33 votes — as a top priority for the ...

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 floor until midnight, the special legislative session would end ...

Part of the attention on the filibuster comes after the 2023-24 legislative session, when senators considered 78 cloture motions, 58 alone in 2023, the most in any year in legislative history.

The measure is set to be one of the first pieces of legislation sent to President Trump's desk after it overcame the legislative filibuster's 60-vote threshold twice this month. The bill ...