Sen. John Thune (R-SD) will promise to maintain the filibuster on Friday afternoon in his first speech as Senate majority leader. “One of my priorities as leader will be to ensure that the ...

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is threatening to block election integrity legislation that would ensure ...

with newly elected Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) being sworn in and vowing to preserve the filibuster, among other priorities, in the 119th Congress. Thune, 63, promised that his tenure would ...

Saturday marked 100 days of the new Republican majority in the U.S. Senate, and we’ve been keeping our foot on the gas.

Thune has been a critic of tariffs but said South Dakotans should offer grace to Trump & his tariff policy 'to see what kind ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) muscled the budget resolution through the chamber thanks to help from the top Senate Republican, who assured holdouts that the Senate would remain on the same page ...

Republicans have vowed spending cuts as part of reconciliation, a legislative process that allows bills to pass with only a ...

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The 2017 tax cuts are likely to be renewed, not expire at the end of the year, thus avoiding a $4.5 trillion tax hike.

newly-minted Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune insists that he will preserve the filibuster despite Democrats demonstrating that they’ll drop it once they’re again in the majority ...

John Thune (South Dakota ... However, when asked about filibuster rules that force 60-vote hurdles on most legislation, Thune retreated into Senate-speak by referring to the chamber’s tradition ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are pushing hard to get ... and limited ways of end-running the Senate filibuster at a time when Democrats’ base is pushing ...