With no end in sight to a federal government shutdown, U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno is suggesting Republicans might have to take a drastic step on Capitol Hill in order to pass a temporary measure to fund ...

Refusing to fund the government is the primary way minority party lawmakers can check the excesses of the executive branch ...

In May and July of 2017, early in his first term, President Donald Trump unleashed flocks of shrieking tweets imploring the Senate to change its filibuster rule for legislative measures. He advocated ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans pushed forward with a simple-majority vote late Wednesday to undo an electric vehicle mandate set by California, which Democrats and the nonpartisan Government ...

In the background of the Senate Republican struggle to give Donald Trump his One Big Beautiful Bill, something historic is going on, aside from the largest social-safety-net cuts ever made. In several ...

A Texas state senator inserted a catheter as part of a desperate attempt to draw attention to her state GOP’s plan to redraw congressional districts in its favor. Carol Alvarado planned to filibuster ...

We explore how the parliamentary maneuver is changing. By Carl Hulse I’m The Times’s chief Washington correspondent. The filibuster is on life support. Both parties have vowed to protect it, but both ...

MAGA supporters seized on a years-old tweet from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as he attempted to delay the vote on President Donald Trump’s sprawling “Big Beautiful Bill” with an early ...

With the two parties very far apart on terms for a measure to keep the federal government open after funding runs out on September 30, the odds of at least a temporary government shutdown are soaring ...

In May and July of 2017, early in his first term, President Donald Trump unleashed flocks of shrieking tweets imploring the Senate to change its filibuster rule for legislative measures. He advocated ...