Some are asking if President Donald Trump, who has criticized the filibuster, might call for the “nuclear option" to remove ...
Republicans have since deployed the maneuver two other times. In 2017, Senate Republicans eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees in an effort to allow the GOP to confirm Justice Neil ...
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Welcome to The Logoff: The federal government is hours away from the start of a near-certain shutdown — and, potentially, an ...
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene recently called on Senate Republicans to use the "nuclear option" to pass a resolution ...
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is very wrong to weaken the Senate’s historic filibuster procedure — which allows legislation and nominations to be slowed or blocked in the absence of 60 votes.