The Laken Riley Act defeated the legislative filibuster again during a second procedural vote on Friday, amassing more than 60 votes to advance it to a final vote. By a margin of 61-35, the bill ...

And the extended debate, the filibuster, that's part of that system of checks and balances. So it's a very important part of limiting government at least in the Senate, for example. I mean ...

A final vote in the Senate is likely to be on Jan. 20, when Donald Trump is sworn in as president. The Laken Riley Act would then go back to the House.

Erick Erickson has laid out some of the reasons why conservatives should seek to keep the filibuster for legislation, and in the Senate, Orrin Hatch and Lindsey Graham have expressed opposition to ...

Many voters think of the filibuster as a tactic for obstruction ... The fact that a bill can’t get 60 votes doesn’t mean it’s ...

Harry Reid is a former Senate majority leader from Nevada. A real fix for this country would be the abolition of the Senate filibuster in all its forms, allowing for a simple majority vote ...

That bar was lowered in 1975 to a three-fifths supermajority, meaning it takes 60 votes in the Senate to end debate. But filibusters, once rare and grand affairs, have become commonplace ...

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, opened the two-year Senate session Friday with a vow to keep the filibuster. The filibuster is a controversial legislative tactic ...

Federal Court Stops Biden Admin’s Title IX Gender Ideology Mandate Nationwide As I explained in “Don’t Bring Back the Judicial Filibuster,” the argument that reinstating the judicial ...

The Laken Riley Act defeated the legislative filibuster again during a second procedural vote on Friday, amassing more than 60 votes to advance it to a final vote. By a margin of 61-35 ...