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Donald Trump—juggling a war that shows more signs every week of dragging on far longer than he imagined, a nation of enraged air travelers, and a day of protests against him that was the largest of ...

Trump is once again urging Republicans to do away with the Senate filibuster, even as leaders in his own party have opposed ...

Republicans in the Senate are under increasing pressure from Trump to pass the SAVE America Act, but ending the filibuster ...

Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) on Sunday said it was time to “stand up” to Senate Republicans who seek to abolish the ...

President Trump is calling for Republicans to get rid of it to end the shutdown. Many in his party are pushing back.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday gave reasons why he thinks the GOP lacks the 51 votes needed to ...

Raise your hand if you thought the filibuster would be a top issue in the most important Republican Senate primary of this ...

Some Republican lawmakers are pushing an old Senate procedure to pass the Trump-backed SAVE America Act — although it may ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on "Special Report" said there is deep resistance within the GOP to altering ...

Glassman, who spent a decade studying congressional procedure at the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, said members of the Senate realized early on that “if you just keep talking, you never ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...