The U.S. Senate has been dysfunctional for decades. There has been a lack of debate on bills thanks to procedural tactics used by the leadership of both parties that marginalized rank-and-file ...

S.D., has thrown cold water on the possibility of tweaking filibuster rules to ensure passage of a key Republican elec ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said “there aren’t anywhere close to the votes” needed to change the Senate’s filibuster rule to allow Republican-sponsored legislation to reform voter ...

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 ...

Some Senate Republicans are rejecting the possibility of invoking a little-known tactic to pass the SAVE America Act — ...

Democrats say they expect growing demands to change the filibuster rules later this month when the battle over voting rights heads to the Senate floor, hoping that the pressure will be enough to ...

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who is leading the push for the bill in the Senate, has called to abolish the so-called "zombie filibuster" and bring back an older form of the rule that requires objecting ...

WASHINGTON — Utah Sen. Mike Lee is pushing to change how the Senate filibuster works, lamenting that the procedural tool has gotten in the way of Republicans passing their agenda despite controlling ...

Why the "talking filibuster" proposal would waste precious Senate floor time and hurt both parties. A warning about changing Senate rules.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said “there aren’t anywhere close to the votes” needed to change the Senate’s filibuster rule to allow Republican-sponsored legislation to reform voter ...