The filibuster gives Democrats the power to block much of Trump’s agenda, creating a strong incentive to defend the rule while in the minority.

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Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas called on fellow Senate Republicans to change the chamber's filibuster rules and pass the "SAVE Act" as he faces a primary runoff against Texas Attorney General ...

Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon discuss term limits as 85-year-old Rep. Jim Clyburn announces his intention to run for an 18th term and whether ...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi joined U.S. Rep. Lloyd Dogget, D-Austin, in Austin March 22, and admitted that with the filibuster she sees no hope for the Senate passing abortion protections Credit ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Tuesday said he supported the SAVE America Act, but that there is not enough support in the Senate to change the filibuster and clear a path for the ...

The Democratic Party wants to break the United States Senate’s legislative filibuster in order to pack the Supreme Court with jurisprudential clones of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has quickly ...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) says Republicans should “nuke” the Senate’s filibuster rule if Democrats continue to block Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding after a possible third assassination ...

I’ve explained why the “talking filibuster” will lead Republicans into a quagmire. I’ve also answered objections to that argument and explained why Harry Reid’s actions in 2013 show how even modest ...