WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans were exploring changes Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s request to cancel $9.4 ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for 8 hours and 44 minutes on Thursday, delaying final passage of Republicans' ...

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for 8 hours and 44 minutes in denouncing President Trump's bill, a record length for a ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delays President Trump's $3.3 trillion bill for hours with a dramatic filibuster, ...

Frustration that the filibuster was not deployed last week should not obscure that it silently constrains the Republican agenda daily.

R Street Institute Senior Fellow James Wallner recently appeared on C-SPAN to discuss the incoming 119th Congress, President-elect Trump’s potential recess nominees, U.S. Senate leadership, the ...

Two years ago, Democrats nearly toppled the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. But with an incoming Republican majority in the Senate, it may be their only tool to fight against a ...

"The filibuster was never an idea of the Founding Fathers. The founders never wrote into the Constitution a filibuster, and contemporaneous writings suggest that the founders’ views ranged from ...

The Senate Democrats may have enough votes to alter the filibuster if they hold onto the majority after the November elections.

While that history indicates a willingness to go along on the filibuster push, Angus King has not yet made the same pronouncement on abortion rights.

But here are some things to know about what constitutes a filibuster and what falls short. And, some of what people define as a filibuster is in the eyes of the beholder.