He began his filibuster Wednesday afternoon, laying out grievances against Schatz and reading emails from people he said were residents of Franklin County who wanted the Senate to support another ...

The show of force comes after Democrats in Congress have faced widespread criticism from their base that they are not doing enough to push back against Trump’s agenda.

Missouri state Sen. Mike Moon spent most of the night holding up the confirmation vote of the former senate president who ...

When Trump first took office, Cruz pushed to overhaul the filibuster because he thought Democrats would eventually do the same. He now admits he was wrong. The Arizona senator clashed with fellow ...

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., condemned the Senate filibuster as an "abuse of power" in 2022, years before his party praised him for launching the "longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history" on Tuesday.

For years now, Democrats have derided the Senate filibuster as a relic of a bygone, racist era. Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden considered the procedural vote a "Jim Crow relic." Progressive ...

Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin refused to help their party abolish the legislative filibuster in the U.S. Senate to make way for the passage of single-party, multitrillion dollar spending bills ...

What's strange to me is that suddenly, Democrats are mad that their Senate leader didn’t abuse the filibuster to stop legislation from passing. It wasn't that long ago they wanted to get rid of it.

the filibuster would have to blow itself out. He suggested ordering cots, and warned everybody to prepare for a siege. If the South wanted to block the way to a civil rights bill, then it would ...

I wanted to get myself into ketosis ... since I got to the United States Senate by the fact that the longest filibuster in constitutional history was trying to block the very civil rights that ...

He began his filibuster Wednesday afternoon, laying out grievances against Schatz and reading emails from people he said were residents of Franklin County who wanted the Senate to support another ...