In an effort to more painlessly pass Trump’s wildly unpopular tax and spending bill, Republicans are pushing for a creative ...

At least two Republicans said they were unaware of provisions in the bill they oppose, while Freedom Caucus demanded steeper ...

The filibuster, he continued, was a “license to mobs to lynch unmolested.” And in fact, in the eight days following the bill’s collapse, vigilantes lynched another four Black Americans.

More than 200,000 donors – with many contributing $25 or less – helped push the New Jersey senator to a record-high ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for 8 hours and 44 minutes on Thursday, delaying final passage of Republicans' ...

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), who has been working on filibuster reform since 2011, is not moved by McConnell’s “scorched earth” threat. “If anyone’s destroyed the Senate, it’s Mitch ...

The Senate filibuster first captured the American imagination in Frank Capra's 1939 movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," when Jimmy Stewart's character spoke for more than a day, and more ...

Potomac Watch: Democrats want to ‘fix’ the chamber by ending the filibuster. But that would ultimately break it. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Progressives are making a ...

The filibuster is a bulwark against dramatic change, since this will ordinarily be supported only by a small majority. But the Democrats don’t like the U.S. as it is and has been, ...

The filibuster allows candidates from both parties to run on extreme positions that they know will never become law; its absence would encourage moderation over time.

A filibuster is a practice whereby any lawmaker can stall action by extending debate or using other tactics. Such strategies are as old as representative democracy – in 60 B.C., ...

transcript. Should We Put the Filibuster Out of Its Misery? Depends on which people you talk to. Ezra Klein and Jessica Anderson join Jane Coaston to debate the Senate’s revered and reviled tactic.