Some are asking if President Donald Trump, who has criticized the filibuster, might call for the “nuclear option" to remove ...

Democrats continue to insist, however, that the shutdown is the Republicans’ fault since, according to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), “They have the presidency, they have the Senate, they have ...

The impasse, now in its 16th day, leaves Washington fast-approaching the third-longest shutdown on record with no end in ...

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.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is very wrong to weaken the Senate’s historic filibuster procedure — which allows legislation and nominations to be slowed or blocked in the absence of 60 votes.

The Senate voted for the eighth time on Tuesday, 49-45, rejecting the short-term funding bill that would reopen the ...

The Senate again voted Thursday on the bill to end the shutdown, but there has been no movement in the more than two weeks since it began. Only two Democratic senators—Catherine Cortez-Masto of Nevada ...

It was a full-on nuclear explosion. Just like the Pacific Testing Grounds near the Marshall Islands and French Polynesia. But this political blast tore through the Senate chamber. In November 2013, ...

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 ...