The Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, sent a letter on Monday to the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey Jr., expressing ...

Then-Democratic leader Harry Reid first took a major swipe at the filibuster in 2013 with the “nuclear option,” eliminating the filibuster for virtually all presidential nominations. Republicans ...

The Senate voted overwhelmingly to avert a government shutdown after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and a handful of ...

Schumer had argued that over time, Democrats would have more leverage as Trump’s popularity continues to decline amid his ...

Democrats across the political spectrum—liberal, moderate, and progressive—appear united in their outrage over Senate ...

Senate Democrats voted to avoid a shutdown but at the cost of throwing their House counterparts under the bus and enabling ...

Democrats have been struggling in how to deal with the dizzying flood of unilateral actions coming from Donald Trump these past 54 days, but tonight’s midnight deadline to keep the federal ...

Democrats across the political spectrum—liberal, moderate, and progressive—appear united in their outrage over Senate ...

McConnell’s tactical success left federal courts short of judges. That led then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make the difficult decision to end the filibuster so that judicial nominees ...

Democrats face a dilemma. Should they help pass a GOP spending bill or allow the government to shut down? NPR speaks with Faiz Shakir, senior adviser to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont.

A shutdown would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, the state and the country,” Schumer said on the Senate floor when he ...