Filibuster

The fate of the upper chamber's signature delay tactic has been thrown into doubt with the impending departures of Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

A special House of Commons committee meeting to discuss a new study on the rise in price of ...

The federal Conservatives resumed their filibuster of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget bill on May 25, with MPs ...

In his latest attempt to rally voters just three weeks ahead of the midterm elections, President Joe Biden ...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) during a rare public appearance on Sept. 26 lectured on the importance of bipartisanship ...

Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) has unveiled a bill that, if picked up by Democrat leaders, would place a ...

Personality contrasts are starting to emerge in the race for the open U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, being ...

While speaking to reporters on Jan. 18, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) rejected his party's notion that tougher state-level ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blasted Democrats for their inconsistent attitudes toward the filibuster during the opening ...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) said on Thursday that she will not help her party to weaken or abolish ...

News Analysis Since returning from their winter break, congressional Democrats and President Joe Biden have made a renewed ...

Commentary Hypocrisy and lies from politicians are so rampant in Washington that hardly anyone pays them much attention ...

Senate Democrats are trying to push Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) into voting to weaken the filibuster so that ...

A Senate showdown over easing filibuster rules is looming, the Omicron variant now makes up almost all of ...

Senate Republicans on Nov. 3 filibustered an election bill put forward by Democrats, continuing a longstanding division between ...

President Joe Biden has indicated support for changing or abolishing the filibuster in order to pass election legislation, ...

Republicans successfully filibustered the Democrats' Freedom to Vote election bill Wednesday, denying the legislation the 60 votes needed ...

Talks between Senate party leaders on a deal to temporarily raise the debt ceiling by a fixed dollar ...

The Texas Senate approved an election overhaul measure on Aug. 12 after a Democrat senator ended a 15-hour ...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday pushed back against calls to abolish the Senate filibuster, a rule that requires ...

Senate Republicans on Tuesday used the filibuster to block a Democrat-backed bill that would address the "wage gap" ...

Former President Donald Trump on Monday said Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is making the right choice in his ...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) on June 2 defended the Senate filibuster as an essential tool and confirmed that ...

Senate Republicans block a bill with the first successful filibuster during the Biden administration, President Joe Biden just revealed a ...

Susan Rice, head of Biden’s Domestic Policy Council, said the White House has suspended its plans to create ...

One of the few Senate Democrats against eliminating the filibuster said this week that she feels lawmakers should ...

Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled in an opinion to allow the Democrats in the evenly-split 50-50 Senate to ...