A key player in Congress’ permitting reform negotiations is calling for the Senate to eliminate the filibuster in order to ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats' unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate ...

Rule allows minority party to block legislation, but GOP is reluctant to scrap it as they could lose majority ...

Lee has argued for the elimination of what he calls the “zombie filibuster,” the procedural tool in the Senate that effectively requires legislation to get at least 60 votes to advance. In practice, ...

President Donald Trump again attacked the filibuster on Friday, listing sweeping policy changes and dangling the prospect of midterm election victories his party could secure if Senate Republicans ...

Several Republican senators have been reconsidering their support for the Senate filibuster amid pressure from President ...

The longstanding procedure has often been used as a tool for the minority party to block legislation they disagree with.

Three years ago, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D–Wash.) and nearly 100 of her House colleagues signed a letter urging top Democrats in the Senate to take radical action. "This is an existential moment for our ...

The filibuster, a parliamentary practice in the U.S. Senate allowing members in the minority to block the will of the majority, has been around in one form or another since long before you were born.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats’ unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate ...