When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom whereby a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass legislation.

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

Sometimes, politics is the art of the impossible. Every time the Senate has changed hands in recent history, nine times ...

Powerless to stop President Trump or Russell T. Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled ...

The Senate voted 61-35 to advance the bill, clearing the 60-vote threshold necessary to overcome the filibuster. The chamber plans to pass the bill on Monday, and will only need a majority vote at ...

You could take a separate long view of Senate history and look at it as a slow nibbling away at the filibuster. There have been these reform efforts through history. In World War One, they created ...

Every time the Senate has changed hands in recent history, nine times starting with the 1980 elections, the party in power has threatened to scrap or at least limit the filibuster. This procedural ...

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 used the filibuster to ...