Sen. Mike Lee and other hard-liners want to pursue the “talking filibuster.” Their colleagues are skeptical.

President Donald Trump isn’t dropping his quest to eliminate the filibuster. That’s going to get complicated for Senate Republicans in an election year. The president’s fixation with undoing the ...

The U.S. Senate has been dysfunctional for decades. There has been a lack of debate on bills thanks to procedural tactics ...

Some reluctant Republicans say an old-school filibuster showdown with Democrats could paralyze the Senate with no guarantee of success. But President Trump and their own colleagues are spoiling for ...

Paxton forced Cornyn into a runoff after Tuesday’s primary – and immediately set off a scramble to win the backing of Trump, ...

President Donald Trump is continuing his push to eliminate the Senate filibuster, creating fresh tensions within the Republican caucus as lawmakers head into a critical election year. Senate ...

President Donald Trump, in a late-night social media post, called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the filibuster to force an end to the government shutdown, a move that would strip away a deeply ...

The U.S. Senate was designed for serious debate, thoroughly vetting and refining laws before they are deployed to reshape the nation. In practice, though, the upper chamber has become a graveyard for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly-split chamber after Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that ...

The federal government has been shut down for over a month, and political finger-pointing has persisted since it began. Republicans claim that they have passed clean continuing resolutions that get ...

A congressional debate over election security is threatening to crack Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-SD) relationship with the MAGA Right as activists vow political retribution if Republicans ...