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 ...
Instead of caving on the shutdown, Democrats should have waited for the GOP to cave on Trump’s demand to scotch this antidemocratic tactic.
Senate Republican support for eliminating the filibuster is picking up momentum after President Trump invited members of the ...
The filibuster, a long-standing Senate rule, allows a single senator to block most legislation unless 60 senators vote to cut ...
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 ...
Republicans in Congress have largely gone along with President Donald Trump’s agenda this year, but his push to eliminate the ...
GOP senators gave their word to protect the 60-vote rule. ‘I’m praying to God they keep it,’ says former Sen. Joe Manchin.
Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats’ unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate eliminate the ...