Raise your hand if you thought the filibuster would be a top issue in the most important Republican Senate primary of this year’s midterm elections. Congratulations if that was your guess. The ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on "Special Report" said there is deep resistance within the GOP to altering ...

President Donald Trump isn’t dropping his quest to eliminate the filibuster. That’s going to get complicated for Senate Republicans in an election year. The president’s fixation with undoing the ...

Senator Mike Lee has explained that Republicans will use the talking filibuster in the Senate to advance the SAVE America Act, a bill that requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for federal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Donald Trump made his latest push for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act to ...

It should be obvious even to the most obtuse Republican in the Senate that the Democrats will eventually regain another governing trifecta in Washington and will shortly thereafter “nuke” the ...

President Donald Trump urged Republicans to “terminate the filibuster” to enact sweeping conservative policies and prevent Democrats from winning future elections — framing the Senate rule as the only ...

In 2013, the then-­majority Democrats in the Senate, under the leadership of Sen. Harry Reid, changed U.S. Senate rules regarding the filibuster to eliminate it, but only for approving presidential ...

The ongoing federal government shutdown is set to become the longest in U.S. history, impacting federal workers and millions of Americans. Republicans and Democrats are deadlocked over issues ...

Proponents of the “talking filibuster” quagmire like to point to the success of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as evidence that important things can be done by breaking a talking filibuster. After all, ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the conference isn't "unified" on using the rarely used tool as he faces increased pressure from the right.