Democrats reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, a bill expanding the federal government's authority to oversee U.S.

In 2005, when the Democrats were holding up qualified judicial nominees via the filibuster in the Senate despite the fact the ...

The filibuster has not even fulfilled its vaunted role as a stimulator for more robust debate and discussion. The findings deal yet another blow to a legislative rule whose abolition is long overdue.

The most famous filibuster is a mythical one that Americans see in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” where actor Jimmy Stewart speaks until he collapses, truthfully maintaining his innocence ...

In a town-hall-style event Thursday with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Mr. Biden said he would be open to doing away with the filibuster in order to pass voting rights and "maybe more." ...

How the filibuster could be a barrier to Democrats’ policy agenda Over the past 10 years or so, the filibuster has increasingly become a weapon of obstruction for the minority party.

The idea is to make it more painful to wage a filibuster against a bill – to have more events like when Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas talked for hours opposing Obamacare, in part by reading ...

The Filibuster Will Survive Because a Few Democrats Are Smart Enough Not To Kill It Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is right: Democrats have more to lose by ending the filibuster than by putting up with it.

OPINION — Without the filibuster, the Senate would become yet another institution where party politics are everything, Orrin Hatch writes.

The filibuster can stop bills from reaching the Senate floor and lead to hours-long speeches. It can be hard to understand what a filibuster is, why we have it and how it impacts the country.

Back in the early 1900s, there were people making the same argument that Republican Senator Mitch McConnell frequently makes, which is to defend the filibuster as a bastion of democracy and a way ...

The filibuster “is gonna be the first thing to go if they’re in a position to run the table,” Fetterman said. “We will have allowed them to get there by not passing these kind of reforms ...