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

President Donald Trump voiced displeasure with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Tuesday for refusing to eliminate the 60-vote filibuster threshold and pass the SAVE America Act. Trump was ...

Senators argue that if Republicans don’t eliminate or weaken the 60-vote threshold, Democrats will once they regain the ...

On March 31, Trump signed an executive order that requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies to ...

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

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 ...

Sen. Ron Johnson says Republicans should end the Senate filibuster, blaming Democrats for the DHS funding deadlock and ongoing government shutdown.

EXCLUSIVE — Former Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democrat-turned-independent from West Virginia, wants to see Republicans retain control of the Senate in November “for the simple reason that they have ...

Bill hits dead end: The SAVE Act failed to advance in the Senate after repeated attempts, falling short of even 50 votes and facing a Democratic filibuster. Trump's top priority: Donald Trump had ...

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 12: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI speaks during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on... “I’ve ...