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

It’s not a filibuster if a senator isn’t actually delaying something. If there is nothing in the parliamentary queue and a senator ties up the floor for 12 hours, no dice. No filibuster.

Voting rights activists prepare for filibuster fight in Senate Congressional Democrats are pursuing an ambitious legislative agenda supported by President Biden, but many of the bills that pass in ...

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." ...

The "talking filibuster" -- as it was most recently seriously articulated by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., in 2012 -- would allow 41 senators to prevent a final vote by talking incessantly, around ...

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 ...

And it might work! After all, if all 50 Democrats vote for a change to the Senate rules on the filibuster – and Vice President Kamala Harris breaks the tie – well, then, the change is made ...

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

We believe that the best way forward is for Harris to rule that the current version of the Senate filibuster operates as an unconstitutional 60-vote supermajority requirement for the enactment of ...

The filibuster is essentially an open-ended objection to a bill that ends only when at least 60 votes say it’s time to move on. And in the modern era, it can be done with as little as a tweet.

The word "filibuster" does not appear in the Senate's official rule book. — -- As the Senate gets closer to the confirmation vote on Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court, there has been ...