The government shutdown began at midnight on Oct. 1 as Democrats and Republicans appeared to be nowhere close to reaching a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...