Senate Republicans could force Democrats into a talking filibuster on voter identification, but it’s unclear if they will use the strategy to pass the bill. The SAVE America Act, a Republican-backed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt ...

The ongoing federal government shutdown is poised to break the record for longest shutdown in the history of the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed or forced to ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was first published in 2021, when Democrats were trying to end the filibuster. It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate ...

For years, California’s late Sen. Dianne Feinstein fought off calls by her fellow Democrats to get rid of the filibuster, a Senate rule used to great effect by Republicans to thwart Democrats’ key ...