With few options to prevent the Republican majority from passing a new congressional map, Democrats threatened to filibuster, ...

The filibuster as a legislative tool was accidentally created in 1806, when the Senate, at the urging of Vice President Aaron Burr a year before, eliminated the "previous question" motion, ...

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The debate over the future of the Senate filibuster has become a lightning rod in American politics. Democrats’ slim governing majority has proved detrimental to passing party priorities , and ...

For those of you who like live legislative action to play from your TV or smartphone as background noise to whatever you're doing, I have bad news for you: The week of the long speeches is over. After ...

Capitol Attitude Dems weigh eliminating filibuster, but most Americans have no idea how it actually works Most “filibusters” are invisible to the lay observer.

Democrats frustrated as fight over filibuster stalls power-sharing agreement in Senate By Ted Barrett , Manu Raju and Ali Zaslav , CNN 5 minute read ...

The filibuster always looks more attractive to the political party not in control. Harris has proposed eliminating the filibuster before. Harris, during her first run for president in 2019, ...

If the filibuster were actually some venerable bulwark of democracy, enshrined in the Constitution and protecting good government, maybe a case for it could be made.

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 before collapsing ...

Abolishing the filibuster would go a small way toward restoring some reality to them. Go ahead, voters would say to new majorities. Give us what you promised. Let’s see what you’ve got.

The filibuster, once used sparingly, was never intended to be a way for the minority to routinely block legislation by preventing bills from advancing, they wrote.