The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has resisted President Donald Trump's pleas to kill the filibuster, but Republicans ...
A renewed push to eliminate the Senate filibuster is gaining attention as President Donald Trump, entrepreneur Elon Musk, and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) publicly align behind calls to change Senate rules ...
The filibuster gives Democrats the power to block much of Trump’s agenda, creating a strong incentive to defend the rule ...
WASHINGTON - Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats' unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate eliminate ...
Senators argue that if Republicans don’t eliminate or weaken the 60-vote threshold, Democrats will once they regain the ...
You have to hand it to John Cornyn: In suddenly coming out for the destruction of the Senate filibuster, he acknowledges this contradicts his long-standing position on the subject. But in an op-ed, he ...
The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...
WASHINGTON — Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats’ unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate eliminate ...