The filibuster isn’t in the Constitution and it wasn’t part of the Founding Fathers’ vision for the Senate. It was created inadvertently after Vice President Aaron Burr complained in 1805 that the ...

In a pair of late-night posts, Trump told Senate Republicans to use the "nuclear option" to eliminate the 60-vote threshold ...

We look at where the willingness among Democrats and Republicans is to end the government shutdown, as well as U.S. strikes on alleged cartel boats in the Caribbean.

Republican leaders in Congress on Wednesday dug in on pressuring Democrats to vote for a “clean” GOP-crafted stopgap to reopen the government, signaling the Senate will hold repeated votes on the bill ...