Nine days into the government shutdown, Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia tells CNN’s Dana Bash she’s ...

The government shutdown began at midnight on Wednesday, Oct. 1, after President Donald Trump and congressional democrats failed to reach a deal over government funding.

Democrats should use the shutdown to curb the Trump administration's worst authoritarian abuses, not to try to goad ...

Over at Balkinization, David Super, a congressional process expert, has these comments about why preservation of the filibuster is, in his view, in the best interests of both parties. Thus, Super ...

Facing Democratic opposition, the GOP has discarded a series of precedents and weakened minority power in order to vote ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ben Sheehan explains the filibuster’s history, evolution, rules, and potential reforms. Why do most bills need 60 votes to pass the Senate? Ben Sheehan explains the filibuster’s history, evolution, ...

The U.S. government has once again been sent into shutdown. For the 21st time in the past 50 years, Congress has not been able to reach an agreement on funding for federal agencies, despite ...

The messaging comes as both parties navigate the shutdown in the court of public opinion, with polls offering conflicting results on whom voters blame.

Later this summer, the Senate may at last tackle a highly controversial issue: whether or not it should approve executive branch nominations decisions based on a majority vote. In doing so, Senate ...

I have a very difficult time believing that Ezra Klein, or any other anti-filibuster liberal, would really rather live in a world where the Bush tax cuts had been larger, permanent, and easily passed ...