President Donald Trump and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged an end to the Senate filibuster rule ahead of an anticipated ...
A key player in Congress’ permitting reform negotiations is calling for the Senate to eliminate the filibuster in order to ...
Some Senate Republicans are beginning to shift their position on getting rid of the filibuster after President Donald Trump again called on lawmakers to "knock out" the longstanding procedural ...
Trump’s calls to eliminate the filibuster and also to do away with blue slips, which allow Senators to hold judicial ...
WASHINGTON — Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats’ unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate eliminate ...
Amid the U.S. government shutdown, which has stretched into its second month, President Donald Trump is ramping up the pressure on Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster—an action commonly known ...
Lee has argued for the elimination of what he calls the “zombie filibuster,” the procedural tool in the Senate that effectively requires legislation to get at least 60 votes to advance. In practice, ...
President Trump is urging Republicans to eliminate the Senate filibuster to reopen the government, but congressional Republicans are resisting the move. President Trump is urging Republicans to ...
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 ...
HAMPSHIRE SEEKING TO RETURN TO WASHINGTON ARE NOT ON BOARD. JOHN SUNUNU AND SCOTT BROWN, BOTH FORMER U.S. SENATORS NOW VYING FOR THE 2026 REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATE NOMINATION, BOTH SAT DOWN FOR ...
The Washington Examiner’s Joe Concha is wary of President Donald Trump’s proposal to end the Senate filibuster, saying Sunday it’s there “for a reason.” Trump is calling for Senate Republicans to ...
To nuke the filibuster or not to nuke the filibuster? That’s the big question as we head into the sixth week of a record federal government shutdown. We keep hearing that the filibuster is a powerful ...