After this election, progressives should send the previously vilified Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema a gift basket.

Two years ago, Democrats nearly toppled the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. But with an incoming Republican ...

Democrats don't have to look back far into history to see how getting rid of the legislative filibuster would work out. In ...

The new Senate Republican majority is promising to leave the filibuster alone — even if it stands in the way of the Trump ...

But it didn’t happen. The Democrats lost votes in the election. Republicans will have a 53-to-47 majority in the Senate.

Progressive House Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) admitted her desire to see senators abolish the filibuster was a ...

"The filibuster will stand,” Mitch McConnell said. Is that good news or bad news for Democrats? The answer might be ...

U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat who represents most of Seattle, has long been a proponent of ending the filibuster as ...

Republican majorities in both chambers of the U.S. Congress will give Donald Trump the power to achieve many of his goals ...

If no political party is willing to say uncle, the drawn-out stalemate in the House of Commons is heading for an ...

President-elect Trump’s desire to use recess appointment authority is a clear expression of his commitment to making the ...

That procedural tool? The filibuster, which requires 60 voters for the Senate to pass most legislation—except for judicial ...