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, ...

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

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 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.

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.

WASHINGTON — Barbara Boxer will be the first to tell you how much she loved the filibuster. Boxer, a California Democrat, won her first election to the U.S. Senate in 1992. Two years later, the ...

A filibuster is a practice whereby any lawmaker can stall action by extending debate or using other tactics. Such strategies are as old as representative democracy – in 60 B.C., Cato the Younger ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is doing everything possible to save the filibuster now that Republicans have lost control of the upper chamber. This rule allows senators to keep speaking ...

He cited as one example "a bill protecting voting rights for southern Black voters" that was defeated by filibuster in 1891, and a legendary 1935 filibuster by Huey Long of Louisiana, who spoke ...

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 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 ...

Senate Republicans are debating whether to restore the 60-vote filibuster rule for confirming presidential nominees to the executive branch and lower courts. It’s nice to imagine a Kumbaya ...