Last month, Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in response to the ...

When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom ...

Former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster in opposition to landmark civil rights legislation remains the longest in history at just over 24 hours. Last month, Senate Democrats ...

And yet when the new Senate majority leader, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, outlined his priorities, he said defending the filibuster is essential to “preserving the Founders’ vision of the ...

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping all aid to South Africa and offering refugee status to white South Africans. The order decried “government-sponsored race ...

Republicans are claiming that the bill should be seen as a narrow fiscal matter, meaning that it could bypass the Senate filibuster and become law more easily. “Using Medicaid funds for unproven ...

Khaleda Zia, BNP chairperson, has been acquitted in the Niko graft case by a Dhaka court, following other corruption case acquittals. This clears her to participate in upcoming elections. The case ...

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 ...

Senate Republicans failed on Wednesday to invoke cloture on a bill legislating care for infants “born alive” during attempted abortions, with the motion largely serving to get Democrats on the ...