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

Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) support for keeping the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation through the Senate remains “unchanged,” according to a spokesperson, despite ...

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.

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

Joe Manchin made a solemn vow to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, swearing on the lives of his children and grandchildren that he would never vote to end the legislative filibuster—a ...

Trump wants the Senate to abolish the filibuster blocking legislation such as ending the shutdown. Here's why even his Republican allies keep it.

President Trump declared to reporters Friday that Republicans would not lose a future election if the party’s leadership in ...

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

Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul voted against advancing legislation ... major bills supported by Democrats by denying those proposals enough votes to clear the filibuster, which is the 60-vote threshold ...