A Democratic leader who once likened the filibuster to Jim Crow policies that enforced racial segregation backtracked on ...

Two years ago, Democrats nearly toppled the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation. But with an incoming Republican ...

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

Democrats don't have to look back far into history to see how getting rid of the legislative filibuster would work out. In ...

Staff Writer Denise Perez argues that the filibuster requires reform as it has evolved into a tool of obstruction for ...

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

U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat who represents most of Seattle, has long been a proponent of ending the filibuster as ...

Seattle congresswoman and Squad grandmother U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal is doing what she does best: backtracking on her ...

Rep. Pramila Jayapal defended her apparent flip-flop on abolishing the filibuster now that Republicans are taking over Congress.

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

John Thune’s victory on a secret-ballot continued the long tradition, in both parties, of elevating small-state senators to ...

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