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 ...
A Democratic leader who once likened the filibuster to Jim Crow policies that enforced racial segregation backtracked on ...
The new Senate Republican majority is promising to leave the filibuster alone — even if it stands in the way of the Trump ...
That procedural tool? The filibuster, which requires 60 voters for the Senate to pass most legislation—except for judicial ...
Speaking at a press conference with the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Monday, Jayapal was asked how she weighed her ...
U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat who represents most of Seattle, has long been a proponent of ending the filibuster as ...
Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was looking to get rid of the filibuster of Democrats gained a majority in the Senate but ...
But it didn’t happen. The Democrats lost votes in the election. Republicans will have a 53-to-47 majority in the Senate.
Am I championing getting rid of the filibuster now when the Senate has the trifecta? No,” the chairwoman of the Congressional ...