Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democrats’ blowup over funding the government isn’t just triggering a fight about the future of the party. It is reopening old ...

About the author: Casey Burgat is the director of the legislative affairs program at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. He is author of We Hold These “Truths”: How ...

When Democratic President Joe Biden took office in January 2021 and the Republican leadership of the Senate — no longer representing a majority of the chamber — still capable of following through on ...

Senate Democrats are filibustering a Republican measure to reopen the federal government. As the shutdown approached and reached record length, Donald Trump grew impatient at the stalemate and ...

Government gridlock is not always dysfunction. Government gridlock is not always dysfunction. We could have used more of it during COVID — remember how governments acted then? The filibuster is a tool ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats’ unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate ...

President Trump is urging Republicans to eliminate the Senate filibuster to reopen the government, but congressional Republicans are resisting the move. President Trump is urging Republicans to ...

Sen. Cory Booker's impassioned oration against the policies of President Trump's administration — with the help of multiple fellow Democrats — didn't just break the record for the longest Senate floor ...

Looks like more and more Democrats are returning to their roots. They’re siding with Jim Crow. What else to conclude when they embrace the same legislative tool their Southern forerunners – the Dixie ...

Ex-independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema called out several of her former Democratic colleagues over their apparent changing stances on eliminating the filibuster. In January 2022, Sinema and ...