House GOP leaders overcame an important hurdle Thursday morning after cutting a deal with Freedom Caucus holdouts on a budget ...

House Republicans are growing increasingly skeptical that they can advance a framework for President Trump’s ambitious ...

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and other top Republican senators vowed to only vote for a permanent, rather than ...

The budget reconciliation process allows bills to pass by simple majority and bypass the Senate filibuster. That means ...

Amid the monotony of hospital routines and physiotherapy sessions, writing becomes Kureishi’s anchor: “I am determined to keep writing, it has never mattered to me more.” Discover notable ...

For Republicans, who for years have celebrated the Electoral College for presidential elections and the U.S. Senate filibuster to ... I have written letters to the editor in the past stating ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics and political will to stymie much of former President Barack Obama’s agenda, hand President Donald ...

By a vote of 52-46, the Senate invoked cloture on the nomination on Monday night, defeating the legislative filibuster ... who urged lawmakers in a letter this month to swiftly move to confirm ...

Now that Democrats regularly outraise Republicans, what was once sacred to the essence of democracy has become a dead letter ... And the Senate filibuster rule? Barely three months ago, before ...

Recently, parents of children in the San Luis Coastal Unified School District led an uprising against a school board that admitted to budget shortfalls. The source of these shortfalls was the end to ...