DALLAS (AP) -- Gov. Rick Perry has invoked the name of Democratic filibuster star Wendy Davis as a rallying cry for tougher abortion limits in Texas. Perry mentioned the former teenage mom and Harvard ...

Trump ramps up filibuster pressure on Republicans as shutdown threatens to become longest ever: Live updates - President ...

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is weighing in on President Donald Trump’s call for doing away with the Senate filibuster in an ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) support for keeping the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation through the ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Wearing pink tennis shoes to prepare for nearly 13 consecutive hours of standing, a Democratic Texas state senator on Tuesday began a one-woman filibuster to block a GOP-led ...

AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — State Senator Wendy Davis, who staged a filibuster that helped delay approval of sweeping abortion restrictions, says she raised nearly $1 million in the final two weeks of ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas Democratic senator who spoke for more than 15 hours against GOP voting restrictions knew she was just delaying the inevitable. Still, Carol Alvarado saw the filibuster as ...

One Texas Senate Democrat is taking drastic measures to ensure her filibuster of the state Republican redistricting plan is successful. Democratic state Sen. Carol Alvarado is using a catheter to ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas Democratic senator who spoke for more than 15 hours against GOP voting restrictions knew she was just delaying the inevitable. Still, Carol Alvarado saw the filibuster as ...