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.

In a recent appearance on Fox Business' Evening Edit, Representative Greg Steube ( R-FL) called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to remove the filibuster 60-vote threshold to get the ...

Democrats are playing politics by keeping the government shut down, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito told "Fox News Sunday." The West Virginia ...

Welcome to The Logoff: The federal government is hours away from the start of a near-certain shutdown — and, potentially, an unprecedented power grab by President Donald Trump.

For the second time in two weeks, the Senate rejected dueling proposals to fund the government, all but guaranteeing a shutdown at midnight. Senators voted 55-45 on Tuesday against a House-passed ...

The possible government shutdown that seems imminent this week would be like no federal funding crunch before it.

Atlanta attorney Emmet Bondurant rejects the U.S. Senate filibuster as unconstitutional but says the Nov. 21 vote to change it violated Senate rules and could lead to "an even more partisan and ...

The No. 4 Democrat in the House is egging on Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster as each side blames the other for the current government shutdown. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), the vice chairman of the ...

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene recently called on Senate Republicans to use the "nuclear option" to pass a resolution and reopen the government.

On Tuesday, he triumphantly told reporters that Republicans were in trouble if he was successful in shifting the conversation to health care, which he explained was his ... for Republicans to break a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pressure is growing among President Joe Biden's Democrats to end the filibuster, a long-standing Senate custom that requires a supermajority to advance most legislation in a ...