WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans used a filibuster Friday to block a Democratic bill to launch a bipartisan probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. It was the first time under new President Joe ...

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., wrote in a Washington Post column that he now believes Democrats were wrong to try to eliminate the Senate filibuster. "It's not often you hear someone in D.C. admit they ...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has flip-flopped on a key issue he ran on in 2022 — eliminating the Senate filibuster. On June 2, the Pennsylvania Democrat sat down with Katie Miller, wife of White House ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Sunday defended the filibuster, saying the U.S. needs it in the Senate. Sasse wrote in a Wall ...

I have addressed the filibuster issue many times in the past two decades, but it is worth addressing again. Several points are relevant. The first is the necessary but futile caution to activists to ...

How important is it, really, the pending change to Senate rules to end the possibility of filibustering nominations to the Supreme Court? It will result in Judge Neil Gorsuch’s joining the court, ...

Rachel Scott reports from Washington, D.C., on the Democrats' failed attempt to pass sweeping voting reform. Senate Television via AP WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the ...