WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has taken a beating for the past week for giving President Donald Trump a ...

The Democratic Party is furious at Schumer and is having difficulties adjusting to the hard realities of the second Trump term.

Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema predicted that one day Democrats would be grateful she preserved the filibuster. That day ...

He helped defeat a racist Jim Crow filibuster in the Senate. To stand up against the racist Jim Crow filibuster tactics was a moment of pure courage. I just think he should be lauded by anybody in any ...

Circumventing the filibuster requires the Senate to obtain 60 votes to approve legislation, but some Democrats in the past have argued the strategy, which is often used to delay votes, should be ...

Kyrsten Sinema called out Democrats who were opposed to her support for the Senate filibuster, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The filibuster debate reignited again this week amid ...

Shutdown averted: The Senate on Friday narrowly averted a government ... effectively thwarting a potential filibuster by their own party. Read more › Justice Department: President Trump assailed ...

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be ...

But history – and simple math – show ... And Trump’s relatively small advantage in the Senate meant that Republicans needed at least eight Democratic votes to break a filibuster. Nine Democrats ...

At such a critical moment in US history ... open image in gallery Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told his colleagues on Thursday that he would vote to break filibuster on the GOP bill ...

Senate Bill 466, which would establish a governing framework for the state's first Black History Museum in West Augustine, passed unanimously in a Florida Senate committee. The bill would create a ...