Senate Republicans thwarted a Democratic filibuster on Thursday, clearing the way to advance Emil Bove’s nomination to the ...

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, ...

Another shutdown crisis is set for the end of September. Once again, Chuck Schumer really doesn’t have any good options.

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 can stop bills from reaching the Senate floor and lead to hours-long speeches. It can be hard to understand what a filibuster is, why we have it and how it impacts the country.

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.