The legislation starts Republicans’ budget reconciliation process but intensifies an intraparty feud with the House GOP.

Facing a key policy deadline, Washington's Legislature has heard hundreds of bills. Up next? Dealing with the big budget ...

The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, but the facts of the matter are more complicated.

When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom ...

While many Canadians continue to struggle to pay for groceries and find a place to live, the federal parliament was paralyzed for months with filibusters and scandals. Then, just as the new year began ...

Last month, Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in response to the ...

1994—Justice Blackmun’s law clerks, perhaps concerned that he is falling behind on his cite-checking responsibilities, melodramatically announce (in a dissent from denial of certiorari in ...

From how many budget bills to adopt, to which toxic cuts to make, to what to do about DOGE, Johnson and Thune face a ...

Mitch McConnell, who rather redundantly announced on Thursday that he would not seek reelection to the U.S. Senate, probably ...

Washington’s legislative session includes a series of key deadlines and Friday was the first major cutoff. This means bills that don’t impact the budget must have been voted out of a committ ...

Senate Republicans approved a plan in the wee hours Friday to spend $350 billion to pay for President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, border security crackdown and military investments.

Sometimes, politics is the art of the impossible. Every time the Senate has changed hands in recent history, nine times starting with the 1980 elections, the party in power has threatened to scrap ...