Raise your hand if you thought the filibuster would be a top issue in the most important Republican Senate primary of this ...

The ongoing federal government shutdown is poised to break the record for longest shutdown in the history of the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed or forced to ...

As the government shutdown nears its 40 th day, Republican senators are balking at President Donald Trump’s demand to end the filibuster, a rule change that would allow a simple Senate majority vote ...

Proponents of the “talking filibuster” quagmire like to point to the success of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as evidence that important things can be done by breaking a talking filibuster. After all, ...

Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is that the filibuster is merely a Senate procedure to shut off debate that has ...