When McConnell’s spinners claim that he wants to keep the filibuster to facilitate bipartisanship and moderation, it’s knee-slappingly laughable. McConnell himself has shown us otherwise.

Experts told Newsweek that the party's attempt to fast-track Trump's budget could hold long-term consequences for Senate ...

New Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), above, is locked in a battle with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over the future of the Senate filibuster.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Democrats on Thursday against weakening the legislative filibuster, an idea that has gained momentum with some presidential candidates and not ...

Monkey Cage Mitch McConnell is wrong. Here’s the filibuster’s ‘racial history.’ From defending slavery to protecting segregation, the filibuster has been heavily used to block civil rights ...

Mitch McConnell: The Senate's filibuster is Kentucky's veto. It stops radical agendas. The filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance most legislation, exists to block bad ideas from becoming ...

Mitch McConnell didn’t get all he’d hoped for in delaying the Senate’s organizing resolution, but got some Democrats to reaffirm their commitment to the filibuster.

Mitch McConnell doesn't believe the filibuster is racist. The reality is it has a history as a tool to suppress Black Americans and block anti-lynching legislature.

Last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said of the filibuster that it “has no racial history at all. None. There’s no dispute among historians about that.” That comment, tweeted ...

Mitch McConnell once acknowledged the filibuster's racist history — now he denies it exists at all "We know from McConnell's own writings that he actually knows this history," one historian ...

Mitch McConnell Is Killing the Filibuster The Senate Minority Leader’s too-clever-by-half demands may push Democrats to throw over the Jim Crow–era relic once and for all.

“Last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said of the filibuster that it ‘has no racial history at all. None. There’s no dispute among historians about that,'” wrote Ambar.