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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump called for the Senate to eliminate the filibuster on Friday, sharing an op-ed from his Treasury Secretary ...

Senate Republicans could use a talking filibuster to try to pass the SAVE America Act, but Majority Leader John Thune has ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...

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, ...

The best argument against eliminating the filibuster is also proof positive that the filibuster is an extra-constitutional ...

President Trump is right in his a call for the Senate to eliminate the filibuster — the procedural rule requiring a 60-vote supermajority to advance most legislation. Critics decry this as a power ...

President Donald Trump called for the Senate to eliminate the filibuster on Friday, sharing an op-ed from his Treasury Secretary making the case. “It’s time to end the filibuster,” Trump posted to his ...