The filibuster gives Democrats the power to block much of Trump’s agenda, creating a strong incentive to defend the rule ...

Republican senators are rallying around their calls to abolish the filibuster following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner over the weekend, a move they say is now more ...

The landmark Senate vote to end the minority party’s ability to filibuster most presidential nominees is just one symptom of the deep level of dysfunction coursing through the 113th Congress as the ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has resisted President Donald Trump's pleas to kill the filibuster, but Republicans ...

The digital currency provision is also implicated in another intra-GOP standoff, this one over housing legislation. The ...

President Donald Trump said he was "disappointed" Senate Republicans haven't terminated the filibuster, calling some GOP ...

President Donald Trump expressed disapproval towards Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune and “foolish” Republicans ...

Rick Scott's interview on its head, making him babble nonsense when she reminded the Senator from Florida that he supported ...

Republican President Calvin Cooledge (1923-29) once said, “It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.” That statement is as true today as it was then. Maybe even more so, ...

Discover what causes political gridlock, its effects on governance, and strategies to overcome it, including insights into ...