When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom whereby a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass legislation.

Several Senate Democrats from swing states joined with Republicans Friday to clear the final hurdle to passing the Laken ...

Vice President Kamala Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio: “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe.” By doing so, Harris has made clear that the only way to preserve the filibuster ...

The filibuster empowers the minority and frustrates the majority. Extended debate has always been a part of the way the Senate does its legislative business. Copied This week on the “Heritage ...

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, opened the two-year Senate session Friday with a vow to keep the filibuster. The filibuster is a controversial legislative tactic ...

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) in his first prepared address as Senate majority leader says “preserving” the filibuster will be one of his top priorities, making an early move to quash any talk of ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had suggested that if Democrats held the upper chamber and White House in the election that his party could abolish the filibuster, a move that moderate ...

That means preserving the legislative filibuster — the Senate rule that ... says it carried out its 'largest attack' on Russian military facilities with missiles and drones NFL News: Baker ...