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 ...

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 ...

Senate Republicans on Wednesday fired the opening salvo in the battle to implement President Trump’s agenda by advancing a budget resolution focused on immigration and military priorities, putting ...

the U.S. Senate cast party lines to the wind: a whopping bipartisan majority defeated, 70 to 21, a bipartisan minority’s attempt to do away with filibusters. The minority was trying to improve ...

U.S. Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand voted against RFK Jr.'s nomination for DHHS Feb. 6. Another ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won a vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, clearing him to become a member of President Donald Trump's ...

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 ...

And yet when the new Senate majority leader, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, outlined his priorities, he said defending the filibuster is essential to “preserving the Founders’ vision of the ...

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 ...

I encourage you to take a quick glance at my book Filibustered!, which lays out the history in the early phases of the Senate. There was no such thing as a filibuster. There was an understanding of ...