Trump’s calls to eliminate the filibuster and also to do away with blue slips, which allow Senators to hold judicial ...

On Tuesday night, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey concluded a marathon 25-hour speech, which broke the record for the longest speech ever made on the Senate floor. He used almost all of the 25 ...

Whenever the gavel switches from the hands of one party to the other in the Senate, lawmakers engage in a public round of debate about a long-established political tradition — the filibuster. With the ...

Cory Booker’s marathon Senate speech isn't a filibuster, but it still ranks among the longest in U.S. history. Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech is one of the longest in US history. These are not ...

Sen. Cory Booker's impassioned oration against the policies of President Trump's administration — with the help of multiple fellow Democrats — didn't just break the record for the longest Senate floor ...

Could the Senate’s tradition of almost unlimited debate wind up a victim of the GOP majority in Congress? That’s an emerging prospect — though far from a certainty — as the government shutdown drags ...

President Donald Trump and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged an end to the Senate filibuster rule ahead of an anticipated ...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul stood up shortly before noon Wednesday and announced his intention to filibuster President Barack Obama's nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA. "I will speak until I can ...

A bill to change the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, a proposal that originally came in response to a lecture on LGBTQ history, is on the verge of passing in the ...