On March 6, Rand Paul stood up in front of the Senate for 12 hours and 52 minutes to block voting on the nomination of John Brennan as well as to call into question the drone policy of the Obama ...

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, the guy that you spend every party trying to find excuses to get away from, has launched into a filibuster intended to stop the renewal of a controversial provision of the ...

And now for some political reaction to those jobs numbers and other events of the week, we turn to columnist E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and the Brookings Institution. E.J., welcome back. E.J.

With Congress juggling government funding, the farm bill, government surveillance reauthorization and more, a Republican ...

WASHINGTON -- The filibuster -- used this week by Republican Sen. Rand Paul to oppose John Brennan's nomination as CIA director -- is a parliamentary tactic used to block or delay legislative action.