Sinema and then-West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin were the two Democratic senators to prevent the filibuster from being axed.

It is reopening old wounds they had hoped to move past, too. After an ultimately unsuccessful effort to eliminate the filibuster during former President Joe Biden’s term roiled Democrats ...

Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto joined with nine other Democrats Friday to thwart a Democratic filibuster aimed at blocking a Republican stopgap funding bill and forcing a government shutdown.

Enough Senate Democrats put their disdain for President Trump aside and voted Friday to end a filibuster of a Republican stopgap spending bill to prevent a government shutdown at midnight.

Ten Senate Democrats voted Friday to help Republicans break a 60-vote filibuster and advance a Trump-backed government funding bill that paves the way for Congress to avoid a midnight shutdown ...

Schumer joined Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) as one of the few Democrats who revealed plans to support Republicans in overcoming a filibuster. During the lively Senate Democratic meeting before ...

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 ...

Mr. Schumer was one of 10 Senate Democrats who put aside their disdain for President Trump and voted to end a filibuster of a Republican stopgap spending bill, although he and seven of those ...

While Republicans hold a 53-47 Senate majority, 60 votes are required to stop a filibuster and bring the budget bill up for a vote. All but one Senate Republican, Rand Paul of Kentucky ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — Concerns about a costly government shutdown spiked Wednesday afternoon after Senate Democrats signaled that they would filibuster a Republican budget measure, a move apparently aimed ...