One of President Donald Trump's top Democratic foes running for the Senate is taking a page from his and conservatives’ playbook in their pitch to reform the filibuster. Democratic Maine Gov. Janet ...

The filibuster gives Democrats the power to block much of Trump’s agenda, creating a strong incentive to defend the rule while in the minority.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has resisted President Donald Trump's pleas to kill the filibuster, but Republicans circumvented it to try to fund immigration enforcement agencies.

The best argument against eliminating the filibuster is also proof positive that the filibuster is an extra-constitutional invention that weakens the experiment in self-government that our nation’s ...

Some Republican lawmakers are pushing an old Senate procedure to pass the Trump-backed SAVE America Act — although it may turn the upper chamber into bedlam for weeks and ultimately backfire. While ...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republican leadership is not budging against pressure to use a so-called talking filibuster to pass the party's voter identification legislation, despite President Donald Trump's ...

Republican Senate candidates are vocal about rooting out their incumbent opponents but withhold criticism when it comes to ...