WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans used a filibuster Friday to block a Democratic bill to launch a bipartisan probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. It was the first time under new President Joe ...
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is waging a largely one-man crusade to reform the Senate filibuster. He sees it as a way to help end obstructionism and address the Senate's increasing dysfunction. (Bill ...
The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...
The most extended government shutdown in U.S. history has revived a familiar argument: The Senate’s filibuster is to blame for congressional paralysis. It’s a compelling narrative with a convenient ...
WASHINGTON — With another potential congressional budget fight looming in January, President Donald Trump is continuing to press Senate Republicans to abolish the chamber’s longstanding filibuster ...
The U.S. Senate finally reached a deal to end the Democrat-led filibuster that caused a government shutdown for more than 40 days. But Sen. Tommy Tuberville said more delays are coming and is calling ...
Conservative demands to abolish the filibuster, like earlier lamentations over the continued existence of the pesky debt limit, strongly indicate that, yes, we do indeed live in bizarro times and ...
The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...
The most extended government shutdown in U.S. history revived a familiar argument: The Senate’s filibuster is to blame for congressional paralysis. It’s a compelling narrative with a convenient ...
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