As the SAVE Act debate begins, understand the Senate filibuster, the 60-vote rule that stands in its way, and why it's so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Congressional Republicans are pushing back on calls from the White House to end the filibuster so that Republicans don't need the ...

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Republicans are trying to ram through Trump’s latest attack on voting rights. If they have to abolish the filibuster to do it, fine.

Senate Republicans could use a talking filibuster to try to pass the SAVE America Act, but Majority Leader John Thune has ...

WASHINGTON — Utah Sen. Mike Lee is pushing to change how the Senate filibuster works, lamenting that the procedural tool has gotten in the way of Republicans passing their agenda despite controlling ...

The best argument against eliminating the filibuster is also proof positive that the filibuster is an extra-constitutional invention that weakens the experiment in self-government that our nation’s ...