Senate Republicans seek to make President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts permanent while Democrats push for a ruling from the ...

Democratic state Rep. Kara Rochelle staged a filibuster in the session's final hour. Lawmakers were attempting to reverse a ...

Harry Reid, also remembered for starting the rollback of the filibuster by excluding some presidential nominations from the ...

Elon Musk has finally discovered what the rest of us have known for a while: the Republicans no longer care about fiscal ...

GOP Senators are chipping away at the 60-vote threshold, marking one more step toward majority rule in the upper chamber.

GOP leaders insist they aren't trying to end the 60-vote rule. Democrats warned that by ignoring the parliamentarian in this ...

The filibuster is under the microscope again as Senate Republicans voted to overturn a federal regulation and nix ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed into law Wednesday a measure banning transgender students from girls’ ...

By Carl Hulse I’m The Times’s chief Washington correspondent. The filibuster is on life support. Both parties have vowed to protect it, but both have chipped away at it. The latest blow came ...

The filibuster is under the microscope again as Senate Republicans voted to overturn a federal regulation and nix California’s vehicle emissions standards, forcing the party to defend the ...

Senate Republicans are going on offense against Democrats’ claims that reversing California’s de facto national electric ...

The vote of 51-46 to proceed against objections turns a battle over clean energy policy into a high-stakes clash over the fate of the 60-vote filibuster rule, with consequences for the future of ...