The State of the Judiciary annual speech was unexpectedly canceled on Wednesday. Missouri House members were caught unaware by the cancellation as the Senate was captured by a GOP-led filibuster.

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 ...

Senate Democrats demanded ICE agents remove their masks and end roving patrols in exchange for their votes to keep the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged Senate Republicans to end the filibuster as a fiscal year 2026 budget battle is expected in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Minority Republicans in the Senate used a filibuster Friday to block a bill that would have launched a bipartisan probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. It was the first time ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made waves on Wednesday by doubling down on demanding Senate Republicans abolish the filibuster to speed up President Donald Trump’s agenda. Trump wants ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly-split chamber after Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that ...

A reform of election laws intended to keep non-citizens from voting in U.S. elections is stalled in the Senate currently, leading one Florida Republican to call for his colleagues to keep talking ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has joined President Trump in a push to end the Senate’s filibuster rule. “The American people are just now emerging from the longest and most devastating government ...

The Florida senator says, "Let’s make everybody stay there and talk and have the standing filibuster" to pass election reform ...

Much of the AFA has made it through the House but has been halted in the Senate. America's very notion of governance has always been that the majority is to lead. By requiring 60 votes, a ...