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 ...

The US Senate is set to embark on a series of under-the-radar moves that could leave progressives with decidedly mixed feelings. For years, progressives have been the most ardent voices calling for ...

In using the nuclear option, John Thune has turned a Senate precedent on its head, defying his reputation as an institutionalist. Congressional experts said that Senator John Thune’s piecemeal changes ...

One Texas Senate Democrat is taking drastic measures to ensure her filibuster of the state Republican redistricting plan is successful. Democratic state Sen. Carol Alvarado is using a catheter to ...

It wasn’t political courage that led Kelly to stake out a position after two years of non-answers about “doing what’s best for Arizonans” to the simple question of whether he wants to keep or ...

Texas Republicans forced a vote and blocked Sen. Carol Alvarado, a Houston Democrat, from a planned filibuster. AUSTIN — Texas state Sen. Carol Alvarado, a Democrat, was set to begin a filibuster ...

AUSTIN, Texas — It’s going to be a long night in the Texas Senate. That’s according to Sen. Carol Alvarado of Houston, who posted to social media that she plans to filibuster the redrawn congressional ...