The government shutdown has reached its 36th day, the longest in U.S. history, as President Donald Trump pressures Republicans to end the Senate filibuster in order to reopen the government."It's time ...

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 ...

Republican President Donald Trump, instead of calling on Congress to negotiate over its budget impasse, has instead called on GOP senators to end the filibuster rule to bypass a Democratic roadblock ...

Californians don’t have to imagine what unchecked majority rule looks like. They see it in Sacramento. The Legislature pushes through hundreds of bills, often moving from committee to the governor’s ...