Updated at 6:23 p.m. ET Former President Barack Obama called on Americans to honor the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis by working to expand voting rights — and if Congress has to abolish the ...

President Donald Trump is continuing to advocate for the Senate GOP to nix the filibuster. In a Monday Truth Social post, the president shared a video featuring clips of former Attorney General Eric ...

Senators Marc Rubio and James Inhofe joined three other Republican colleagues threatening to filibuster any restrictions on guns Thursday, NBC’s First Read team writes. They have added their names to ...

In 2013, the then-­majority Democrats in the Senate, under the leadership of Sen. Harry Reid, changed U.S. Senate rules regarding the filibuster to eliminate it, but only for approving presidential ...

CONTINUATION FROM A HEARING OCTOBER 1ST. THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IS NOW THE LONGEST IN U.S. HISTORY, AT 36 DAYS. PRESIDENT TRUMP AGAIN TODAY REITERATING HIS DESIRE FOR THE U.S. SENATE TO GET RID OF ...

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 ...

Dec. 27 (UPI) --President Donald Trump and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged an end to the Senate filibuster rule ahead of an anticipated budget battle in January. Bessent submitted an op-ed that The ...