A filibuster is a practice whereby any lawmaker can stall action by extending debate or using other tactics. Such strategies are as old as representative democracy – in 60 B.C., Cato the Younger ...

He cited as one example "a bill protecting voting rights for southern Black voters" that was defeated by filibuster in 1891, and a legendary 1935 filibuster by Huey Long of Louisiana, who spoke ...

Abolishing the filibuster would go a small way toward restoring some reality to them. Go ahead, voters would say to new majorities. Give us what you promised. Let’s see what you’ve got.

The filibuster, a parliamentary practice in the U.S. Senate allowing members in the minority to block the will of the majority, has been around in one form or another since long before you were born.

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.

The Senate's filibuster could be at risk if Democrats retain the majority after the 2024 elections, with the exit of two staunch defenders of the tool in Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten ...

The filibuster now has three paths forward—and all of them end, one way or another, in its demise. The first and most obvious possibility is that Democrats will one day win a Senate majority ...

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 ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is doing everything possible to save the filibuster now that Republicans have lost control of the upper chamber. This rule allows senators to keep speaking ...

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

A filibuster is a practice whereby any lawmaker can stall action by extending debate or using other tactics. Such strategies are as old as representative democracy – in 60 B.C., Cato the Younger ...