OpEd: Preserving the filibuster maintains balance, protects minority voices, and prevents rapid, destabilizing policy shifts ...

Congress remains locked in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. While headlines understandably focus on safety-net and healthcare talks, a broader institutional danger looms: elimination ...

The federal government has been shut down for over a month, and political finger-pointing has persisted since it began.

GOP senators gave their word to protect the 60-vote rule. ‘I’m praying to God they keep it,’ says former Sen. Joe Manchin.

Senate Republican support for eliminating the filibuster is picking up momentum after President Trump invited members of the ...

Republicans in Congress have largely gone along with President Donald Trump’s agenda this year, but his push to eliminate the ...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) has said he won’t block a final vote on a spending bill that includes a provision to defund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to ...

Instead of caving on the shutdown, Democrats should have waited for the GOP to cave on Trump’s demand to scotch this antidemocratic tactic.