Can’t live with it, can’t burn it down (or so my lawyers caution me). Recently, I’ve had cause to ruminate on the upper house’s continued existence and the way its workings threaten our own. And then, ...

Horse trainer and Democrat Dale Romans has announced his candidacy for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat. He’s facing a crowded ...

I think that is the crudest form of political weapon that I can imagine — and that's why I came to the conclusion that we had ...

Article Summary Sen. Dick Durbin said he backed reopening the government to protect federal workers and to restore food assistance, ...

In 1917, the Senate adopted a rule to invoke cloture, or limit debate. That required a two-thirds vote. In 1975, the Senate change the rule to lower the margin needed to invoke cloture to three-fifths ...

Progressive Democrats insist they’re madder than ever about Schumer, but there’s no sign of any coalescing around an alternative leader for Democrats in the Senate.

In some mythical future when Dems regain a majority in the Senate, they might well scrap the filibuster. But for now, it’s ...

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

The "Schumer Shutdown" ends as Senate Democrats face political fallout. Chuck Schumer's strategy backfires ahead of potential ...

Sunday night, the inevitable finally happened and the Senate Democrats finally cracked. After more than 40 days of pointless ...

What are they smoking? A proposed hemp ban that threatens to end the sale of scores of popular THC gummies, vapes and even ...