Democrats largely voted against the bill to fund the Pentagon amid the shutdown. The vote came hours after a Senate bill to ...

MINNEAPOLIS — During negotiations over the federal government shutdown, Republicans have been unable to advance a temporary funding resolution in the U.S. Senate because they don't have a large enough ...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is very wrong to weaken the Senate’s historic filibuster procedure — which allows legislation and nominations to be slowed or blocked in the absence of 60 votes.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders have made consequential moves this year to weaken or end-run minority power when it stands in the way of their ambitions during the second Donald Trump ...

Democrats' stated reason for opposing Republicans' "clean" continuing resolution to keep the government open is that the spending bill doesn't extend expiring Obamacare premium subsidies or roll back ...

DNC Chair Ken Martin called for abolishing the filibuster and said Democrats should push for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico to gain statehood if they return to power, before labeling the Trump ...

In using the nuclear option, John Thune has turned a Senate precedent on its head, defying his reputation as an institutionalist. Congressional experts said that Senator John Thune’s piecemeal changes ...

Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a forthcoming book, calling his 2022 push to abolish the filibuster a “spectacle.” The book, titled “Dead ...