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

Democrats are leery of supporting Republican spending measures after the White House forced through clawbacks of funding ...

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.

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.

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." ...

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has been arguing to maintain the legislative filibuster, which Barack Obama called a “Jim Crow relic.” The filibuster was primarily used to block civil ...

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 “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 ...

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.

So the filibuster is here to stay, as long as Senate Democrats leave it alone. They should. Christian Fong is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Michigan.

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 ...