President Trump urged Republicans to get rid of the Senate filibuster rule and move swiftly to pass voter reform after Tuesday’s Democratic sweep in key state races across the U.S. In a series of ...
Returning Democratic senators unanimously support changing the rules for the filibuster after two years of gridlock. Though the senators, who all signed a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid calling ...
Senate Democrats are filibustering a Republican measure to reopen the federal government. As the shutdown approached and reached record length, Donald Trump grew impatient at the stalemate and ...
Conservative columnist George Will is urging Senate candidates to support a reform of the filibuster aimed at restoring legislative checks on presidential power. He endorses a 'two-track' plan by ...
Senate Republicans are increasingly chattering about changing the filibuster’s rules if Democrats do not end the shutdown, even though Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he opposes ...
“TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER,” President Donald Trump recently urged Senate Republicans in a Truth Social post, echoing a position often associated with progressives. As both a veteran and an everyday ...
President Trump’s call for Republicans to “take over” voting procedures in more than a dozen states and “nationalize” the midterm elections has Republican senators debating filibuster reform to get ...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...
WASHINGTON – In 2021, Democrats in the nation’s capital seized a rare opportunity. The party controlled the “trifecta” of the House, Senate and White House, so they passed a sweeping election-reform ...