This ritual is exactly why nothing ever changes. The threat of a filibuster has become Washington’s most convenient excuse for doing nothing. Instead of debating ideas and voting them up or down, the ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told GOP colleagues Tuesday that they don’t have the votes to pass a ...

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, reversed himself on the Senate filibuster to pass President Trump's SAVE America Act after years ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Trump’s call for Republicans to “take over” voting procedures in more than a dozen states and “nationalize” the midterm ...

Democrats could easily block the SAVE Act by voting against a cloture motion.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Wednesday that there’s not enough consensus in the Senate ...

Republican candidates running in some of the most competitive Senate races in 2026 are increasingly weighing in on a growing ...

Trump is ramping up pressure on Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster—an action known as the “nuclear option.” ...

Senate Republicans are increasingly chattering about changing the filibuster’s rules if Democrats do not end the shutdown, even though Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he opposes ...

With just a few small tweaks to the rules, filibuster reform proponents believe, the U.S. Senate could eliminate the gridlock afflicting the federal judicial confirmation process: no more senators ...