Senate Minority Whip John Thune told Fox News Wednesday that Republicans will keep the legislative filibuster if they take the chamber in the 2022 midterms, even as Senate Democrats are in the middle of an assault on the 60-vote threshold that applies to most bills.

To be sure, Paxton's win of the Republican nomination doesn't guarantee his entry into the Senate, and Democratic candidate James Talarico is expected to be a formidable opponent. But Cornyn's departure from the chamber is now definite.

Republicans' stumble on an immigration funding bill is raising questions about other parts of their legislative agenda.

A partial government shutdown is driving a new wedge between Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and his House counterpart, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), as Republicans struggle to find a way to reopen the Department of Homeland Security. Thune and ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Wednesday that there’s not enough consensus in the Senate Republican conference to increase the chances of advancing voting reform by forcing Democrats to wage an arduous talking filibuster in ...

WASHINGTON(AP) — Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that the Senate will consider a bill to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements in elections, but says “the votes aren’t there” to pass it through a marathon talking filibuster ...