Senate Republicans had previously endorsed a two-track approach, with the second bill focusing just on renewing the 2017 Tax ...

Ex-independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema called out several of her former Democratic colleagues over their apparent ...

Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat, took to the Senate floor and started what she hoped would be a 13-hour filibuster of the ... would ban all abortions after 20 weeks, require that doctors ...

Even before Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had finished his 21-hour almost-filibuster, his feat of stamina was being compared and contrasted with other recent classics of the genre: The 13-hour ...

Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) had a heated exchange with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other Democratic ...

The Senate minority leader said that while Republicans’ continuing resolution was ‘certainly bad,’ a shutdown ‘would be 15 or 20 times worse ... to overhaul the filibuster because ...

Former South Carolina Sen. 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 ...

By a margin of 62-38, senators voted to advance the measure. Ten Democrats joined nearly all Republicans to overcome the filibuster. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate Minority ...

For years now, Democrats have derided the Senate filibuster as a relic of a bygone, racist era. Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden considered the procedural vote a "Jim Crow relic." Progressive ...

It is reopening old wounds they had hoped to move past, too. After an ultimately unsuccessful effort to eliminate the filibuster during former President Joe Biden’s term roiled Democrats ...

Harry Reid is a former Senate majority leader from Nevada. A real fix for this country would be the abolition of the Senate filibuster in all its forms, allowing for a simple majority vote ...