President Donald Trump called on the Senate to eliminate the filibuster to prevent future shutdowns and economic disruptions ...

President Donald Trump and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged an end to the Senate filibuster rule ahead of an anticipated ...

Trump’s calls to eliminate the filibuster and also to do away with blue slips, which allow Senators to hold judicial ...

Could the Senate’s tradition of almost unlimited debate wind up a victim of the GOP majority in Congress? That’s an emerging prospect — though far from a certainty — as the government shutdown drags ...

On Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey concluded a marathon 25-hour speech, which broke the record for the longest speech ever made on the Senate floor. He used almost all of the 25 ...

Whenever the gavel switches from the hands of one party to the other in the Senate, lawmakers engage in a public round of debate about a long-established political tradition — the filibuster. With the ...

The term first appeared in the English language in 1591, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The word was then `flee-booters.' Its origins are probably Dutch, with some Spanish and French ...

Sen. Cory Booker's impassioned oration against the policies of President Trump's administration — with the help of multiple fellow Democrats — didn't just break the record for the longest Senate floor ...

Senate Republicans are forfeiting power within their own chamber and acting like they're in the minority. The filibuster shields them from themselves.

A bill to change the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, a proposal that originally came in response to a lecture on LGBTQ history, is on the verge of passing in the ...