Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place as they must choose between shutting down the government or folding to ...
One crisis looks to be avoided as a midnight deadline looms to keep the government funded amid economic uncertainty and a ...
Without Democratic votes to break a Senate filibuster, the GOP would not have been able to pass its stopgap spending bill and ...
House Republicans this week passed a government funding bill 217-213 without assistance from Democrats, losing only one vote from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Their greatest power is their ability to speak out about how the Trump administration is violating the law and undermining ...
The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending ...
Senate Democrats faced backlash on Monday after the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act failed to garner the votes it needed to break the filibuster. Republicans needed 60 votes but only ...
Back in the minority and seeking to stonewall President Donald Trump, Senate Democrats have transitioned into the latest phase of their love-hate relationship with the filibuster. Democrats ...
It shouldn’t be news when a prominent elected official says it’s unfair to force women and girls to compete against transgender athletes. That seems to ...
WASHINGTON (CN) — Concerns about a costly government shutdown spiked Wednesday afternoon after Senate Democrats signaled that they would filibuster a Republican ... major litigation and hot cases and ...
“I love it now,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), who’s long advocated dismantling the legislative filibuster, said with a laugh. “We all like rules that help us, and right now that we're in the ...