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.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have made United States senate history today when he beat his own legislative baloney, blocking a straight up-or-down vote on a proposal that he, ...

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 ...

Some Democrats eye rule change as they prepare for first day of new Congress. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 2010 — -- Their majority dwindling, some Senate Democrats are planning a showdown on the first ...