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 ...

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

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

Filibuster for me, but not for thee. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), an outspoken critic of the Senate filibuster, indicated ...

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

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

Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was looking to get rid of the filibuster of Democrats gained a majority in the Senate but ...

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 ...

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