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.

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 ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a stark warning Tuesday about how Republicans would grind the chamber to a halt if Democrats changed the filibuster rules, leading to a “completely ...

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 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.

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: 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 ...

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 ...