People Power Party Representative Park Soo-min renewed the record for the longest filibuster in history on the 26th. The previous record was 15 hours and 50 minutes, which he himself set last August ...

Facing Democratic opposition, the GOP has discarded a series of precedents and weakened minority power in order to vote through Trump's nominees and legislation.

Senate Republicans are dropping to new lows to sidestep the filibuster and pass Donald Trump’s behemoth budget bill. In an effort to more painlessly pass Trump’s wildly unpopular tax and spending bill ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dewhurst took three hours to strike his gavel for a handful of reasons. After the points of order against Sen. Wendy Davis, whose filibuster was viewed by nearly 200,000 people via a live stream ...

Late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) detonated the first Senate "nuclear option" in 2013, curbing the filibuster to confirm executive branch nominees - except for the Supreme Court. Former ...

Her filibuster is unlikely to do more than delay the inevitable. In 2021, Alvarado spoke for 15 hours to protest GOP voting restrictions that ultimately became law. The showdown in Texas has inflamed ...

Republicans are relying on rarely employed accounting methods to push Donald Trump's "one, big beautiful bill" through the Senate, and in doing so could upend established Congressional procedures ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) -- In a last-stand move to halt the Texas redistricting bill from being passed, Democrat Senator Carol Alvarado is planning to filibuster the impending legislation on Friday ...