Rule allows minority party to block legislation, but GOP is reluctant to scrap it as they could lose majority ...

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President Donald Trump and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged an end to the Senate filibuster rule ahead of an anticipated ...

Trump’s calls to eliminate the filibuster and also to do away with blue slips, which allow Senators to hold judicial ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...

In an interview with Politico on Friday night, Trump called on Republicans to move to end the procedure, arguing that it has become an impediment to effective governance and that scrapping it would ...

To the editor: To a significant extent, the Senate filibuster is already in jeopardy (“The U.S. Senate is a mess. He wants to fix it, from the inside,” Dec. 11). Republicans have shown a willingness ...

Missouri Senate Democrats engaged in a lengthy filibuster Wednesday to block a Republican-back bill aimed at rolling back a ...

The U.S. Senate was designed for serious debate, thoroughly vetting and refining laws before they are deployed to reshape the nation. In practice, though, the upper chamber has become a graveyard for ...

To nuke the filibuster or not to nuke the filibuster? That’s the big question as we head into the sixth week of a record federal government shutdown. We keep hearing that the filibuster is a powerful ...

Government gridlock is not always dysfunction. Government gridlock is not always dysfunction. We could have used more of it during COVID — remember how governments acted then? The filibuster is a tool ...

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