Facing Democratic opposition, the GOP has discarded a series of precedents and weakened minority power in order to vote through Trump's nominees and legislation.

Republicans can kill the filibuster and end the government shutdown without any Democrats. But will they do it?

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Monday floated the use of the “nuclear option” to end the shutdown and get around Senate ...

Dewhurst took three hours to strike his gavel for a handful of reasons. After the points of order against Sen. Wendy Davis, whose filibuster was viewed by nearly 200,000 people via a live stream ...

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 ...

Fed up with important legislation languishing in the U.S. Senate, the returning members of the Democratic caucus are asking Senate majority leader Harry Reid for a revision of filibuster rules when ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have made United States senate history today when he beat his own legislative baloney, blocking a straight up-or-down vote on a proposal that he, ...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Early Saturday morning, the Texas State Senate gave final approval to legislation to redraw the state’s congressional map. The vote came after Republicans in the chamber made a ...

Nine days into the government shutdown, Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia tells CNN’s Dana Bash she’s ...