With no end in sight to a federal government shutdown, U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno is suggesting Republicans might have to take a drastic step on Capitol Hill in order to pass a temporary measure to fund ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune will use parliamentary tactics to establish a new precedent for confirming batches of lower-level Trump nominees this Wednesday.

On This Week With George Stephanopoulos Sunday morning, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol criticized Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) so-called “nuclear option”— that eliminated the ...

Update (4:59 p.m.): The cloture vote fails, 58-40-1, to move Hagel's confirmation forward and end the filibuster. A new vote will be set for after Senate recess, likely either on February 25 or 26.

In May and July of 2017, early in his first term, President Donald Trump unleashed flocks of shrieking tweets imploring the Senate to change its filibuster rule for legislative measures. He advocated ...

With the start of the Supreme Court Term, the NYU Democracy Project is publishing several essays this week on the Court. The first of these, Enshrine Nine, comes from Ed Whelan, who argues for a ...

2003—The seventh cloture vote on President Bush’s nomination of the superbly qualified Miguel Estrada to the D.C. Circuit yields the same result as the first cloture vote nearly five months before: ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In this June 9, 2016, photo, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in ...

Senate Republicans are working to get the bulk of President Donald Trump’s agenda into a single bill, which means retooling their House counterparts’ megabill into something that can pass through the ...

Some Democrats eye rule change as they prepare for first day of new Congress. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 2010 — -- Their majority dwindling, some Senate Democrats are planning a showdown on the first ...

Democratic Party of Korea Representative Min Hyung-bae proposed a bill on the 10th to allow the National Assembly Speaker to suspend a session without a vote if a certain number of lawmakers leave ...