Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US Capitol Police officer stands guard in the empty hallway outside the darkened Senate Floor on Friday. - Jonathan ...

President Donald Trump isn’t dropping his quest to eliminate the filibuster. That’s going to get complicated for Senate Republicans in an election year. The president’s fixation with undoing the ...

Donald Trump—juggling a war that shows more signs every week of dragging on far longer than he imagined, a nation of enraged air travelers, and a day of protests against him that was the largest of ...

Trump has urged Senate Republicans to choose a dramatic strategy as the 2025 government shutdown threatens to become the ...

Raise your hand if you thought the filibuster would be a top issue in the most important Republican Senate primary of this year’s midterm elections. Congratulations if that was your guess. The ...

The one Republican elected official who has a serious and workable plan to end the government shutdown is, surprisingly enough, Donald Trump. The president’s idea is for the Senate to change its rules ...

So, as we watch the current government shutdown roil on, the question of the filibuster has emerged in our national conversation, at least on the margins. This is because the reason that we are in a ...

To hear it spoken of in Washington, the filibuster is either a bogeyman or a boon: a dreaded obstacle to reform or an essential tool to slow things down. Most politicos fall into either camp. It’s too ...

Proponents of the “talking filibuster” quagmire like to point to the success of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as evidence that important things can be done by breaking a talking filibuster. After all, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Norman Ornstein discusses the historical use of the Senate filibuster. Congressional Historian Norman Ornstein discusses the Senate filibuster.

EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was first published in 2021, when Democrats were trying to end the filibuster. It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate ...