Senate Democrats are filibustering a Republican measure to reopen the federal government. As the shutdown approached and reached record length, Donald Trump grew impatient at the stalemate and ...

The federal government has been shut down for over a month, and political finger-pointing has persisted since it began. Republicans claim that they have passed clean continuing resolutions that get ...

Senate Republicans are increasingly chattering about changing the filibuster’s rules if Democrats do not end the shutdown, even though Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he opposes ...

That pandering track just isn’t how I can roll, so here we go: While I support the SAVE Act, it is not necessary to win the midterms, nor is it worth blowing up the filibuster over. Advertisement I ...

Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is that the filibuster is merely a Senate procedure to shut off debate that has ...

Senate Republicans have largely backed President Donald Trump’s agenda since he returned to office — but many refuse to support his campaign to scrap the filibuster. Trump asked Republican senators at ...

Proponents of the “talking filibuster” quagmire like to point to the success of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as evidence that important things can be done by breaking a talking filibuster. After all, ...

Instead of caving on the shutdown, Democrats should have waited for the GOP to cave on Trump’s demand to scotch this antidemocratic tactic. There were only ever two ways the government shutdown was ...

To nuke the filibuster or not to nuke the filibuster? That’s the big question as we head into the sixth week of a record federal government shutdown. We keep hearing that the filibuster is a powerful ...