A defining feature of the U.S. Senate for more than two centuries, the concept of using long speeches to delay action or bring awareness to a cause has been at the heart of some of the most ...

She is now simply Wendy. As the leader of a last-minute fight against a rigid antiabortion bill, the filibustering, pink-sneaker-shod, Harvard Law School–trained, hardscrabble Texas-raised state ...

Today, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis will attempt to spend 13 hours filibustering a generally senseless state law that would, effectively, ban abortion within the state of Texas. As of this writing, ...

Senate Democrats have pushed through a historic rule change that will end the filibustering of most executive and judicial nominees. By a simple majority, Democrats voted to lower the threshold for ...

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On Wednesday night, Tucker Carlson took on former U.N. ambassador Nancy Soderberg over the latest developments on the Obama-era Uranium One Deal that reportedly involved Russian corruption that was ...

Hong Kong pro-democracy legislators threatened mass resignations on Monday amid reports Beijing plans to disqualify four opposition lawmakers who had been accused by the ruling camp of potentially ...

President Obama is imploring the Senate to take up his forthcoming nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court — a decade after he himself sought to block the nomination of Samuel ...

Yesterday, Texas Senator and Goddamn Hero Wendy Davis intended to stand for 13 hours, filibustering before her fellow state senators to block abortion-restricting legislation known as Senate Bill 5 ...

During her remarks in a Senate hearing in January, Senator Elissa Slotkin mocked Pete Hegseth over his inability to answer a simple question. Slotkin stated, "I get it; you're filibustering." ...

Representative Seth Magaziner put Kristi Noem in her place during a recent House hearing recently, stopping her from filibustering. Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted ...