The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

How to Fix the Broken Senate and Save America.” I wanted to know ... (From here, Merkley described several eras in which filibusters, driven by North-South regional disagreements, paralyzed ...

Democrats have fallen back in love with the filibuster. Mere weeks into President Trump’s second term, Senate Democrats are already making liberal use of the obstructive maneuver, flying in the ...

Harry Reid is a former Senate majority leader from Nevada. A real fix for this country would be the abolition of the Senate filibuster in all its forms, allowing for a simple majority vote ...

Then, at 11:18 a.m., Sen. Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat, took to the Senate floor and started what she hoped would be a 13-hour filibuster of the abortion bill. If Davis managed to keep the ...

Filibusters once required senators to stand ... The Senate, envisioned by America’s founders to be a highly deliberative body, was created with no mechanism to end debate on a given topic.

After their election loss, notice how quickly Democrats have flip-flopped with respect to their push to abolish the legislative filibuster. Back in 2021, Representative Pramila Jayapal ...

Incoming Senate GOP Leader John Thune (R-SD) vowed that the filibuster will be "safe under Republican control," even if it may stand in Trump's way. “I find it ironic that a party that has spent ...

How to Fix the Broken Senate and Save America.” I wanted to know if he would work with Republicans on filibuster reform if Trump demanded it. Our conversation, conducted by phone and edited for ...

I went to Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat who led the effort to reform the filibuster during Biden’s term and is also the co-author of the 2024 book, “Filibustered! How to Fix the Broken Senate ...