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.

Democrats should use the shutdown to curb the Trump administration's worst authoritarian abuses, not to try to goad ...

With no end in sight to a federal government shutdown, U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno is suggesting Republicans might have to take a drastic step on Capitol Hill in order to pass a temporary measure to fund ...

Federal officials are bracing for the worst effects of the ongoing government shutdown to collide with the U.S. economy this ...

The No. 4 Democrat in the House is egging on Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster as each side blames the other for the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pressure is growing among President Joe Biden's Democrats to end the filibuster, a long-standing Senate custom that requires a supermajority to advance most legislation in a ...

In a social media post, the far-right Georgia congresswoman called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the filibuster, ...

The threat of a government shutdown looms over the U.S. this week as members of Congress continue to reject a short-term bill that would keep the government running. Though Republicans control both ...

With Congress finally going back to work this week, its one overriding task is to keep the nation from plunging over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” a combination of automatic tax increases and budget ...

The nuclear option — otherwise known as an arcane filibuster reform that would allow a bill to pass by a majority in the Senate, as opposed to the 60 votes needed to override a filibuster — is back in ...

Partisan politics tends to bring out out the bile, and few subjects have a more emetic effect than the filibuster. The procedural move, never or rarely used until recent years, now dominates Congress ...