White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made waves on Wednesday by doubling down on demanding Senate Republicans abolish the filibuster to speed up President Donald Trump’s agenda. Trump wants ...

Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is, the filibuster is merely a Senate procedure to shut off debate that has existed ...

Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is that the filibuster is merely a Senate procedure to shut off debate that has ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...

The U.S. Senate finally reached a deal to end the Democrat-led filibuster that caused a government shutdown for more than 40 days. But Sen. Tommy Tuberville said more delays are coming and is calling ...

As President Donald Trump intensifies his calls for Senate Republicans to get rid of the filibuster, Sen. John Cornyn on Wednesday said he is open to “changes” that would allow spending bills to pass ...

The ongoing government shutdown has reignited debates over the Senate filibuster rule, which requires a 60-vote threshold for most legislation. Eliminating this rule could allow Republicans to end the ...

President Donald Trump is urging Senate Republicans to end the filibuster to bring the month-long government shutdown to a close. That's a really bad idea, and the Republicans know it's a really bad ...

With 81 Republicans voting with their Democrat colleagues to block a Trump-supported effort to defund the rogue National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was defined as a […] ...

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