Frustration is growing inside the GOP as the government shutdown drags on with no end in sight and as military members are about to start missing paychecks.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was quick to criticize Johnson for canceling votes, with him and other ...

It was a full-on nuclear explosion. Just like the Pacific Testing Grounds near the Marshall Islands and French Polynesia. But this political blast tore through the Senate chamber. In November 2013, ...

Republicans have since deployed the maneuver two other times. In 2017, Senate Republicans eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees in an effort to allow the GOP to confirm Justice Neil ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) -- In a last-stand move to halt the Texas redistricting bill from being passed, Democrat Senator Carol Alvarado is planning to filibuster the impending legislation on Friday ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders have made consequential moves this year to weaken or end-run minority power when it stands in the way of their ambitions during the second Donald Trump ...

Opposition to ending the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule has softened, now that Republicans hold the majority in the upper chamber of Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online ...

AUSTIN, Texas — It’s going to be a long night in the Texas Senate. That’s according to Sen. Carol Alvarado of Houston, who posted to social media that she plans to filibuster the redrawn congressional ...

Urine for a long night. Texas Democratic state Sen. Carol Alvarado announced plans Friday to filibuster a Republican-led redistricting bill — and while she’s holding the floor, she won’t be holding it ...