Shuttering the agency is unlikely as it would require congressional approval and some Democratic votes to break the Senate ...
Its role in civil rights and disabilities act enforcement involves investigating ... from a simple majority in the House. Due to the filibuster in the Senate, such legislation needs 60 votes ...
In a recent turn of events, a Republican-led Senate bill aimed at preventing boys from participating in girls’ sports ...
The Senate failed to advance a bill to codify a Trump executive order and prevent biological males from playing in girls ...
America’s climactic battle for civil rights took place in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago. The March in Selma focused on voting ...
Yet the football player, invited by Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights ... signed the Act roughly two weeks after it passed in the U.S. Senate following a 72-day filibuster by opponents ...
The Senate on Friday narrowly averted a government shutdown at midnight, passing a G.O.P.-written stopgap spending measure ...
Despite his decades towering over Washington as a top GOP leader, he is now eclipsed by President Trump’s takeover of his ...
A Republican-led Senate bill to prevent boys from participating in girls' sports failed to overcome the legislative filibuster on ... of our Nation’s civil rights laws. Congress’s affirmative ...