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

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, ...

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

Democratic voters say they want their leaders to be throwing up roadblocks as often as possible with President Trump in the ...

The overwhelming consensus on Capitol Hill was that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) would only delay President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" by about an hour. As noon approached on ...

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.

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 ...

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 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, ...

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

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 ...