Iowa's Democratic U.S. Senate candidates in a closely watched primary race sparred over outside spending and immigration policy during the first televised debate of the election. Josh Turek, a state ...
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 members ...
Republican Senate leadership is eying a hybrid-style debate gambit over the talking filibuster amid detractors’ pressure on the SAVE America Act. Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced on Feb. 12 ...
Filibuster refers to the legitimate act of obstructing parliamentary proceedings by the minority. Although the National Assembly Act refers to this as ...
EXCLUSIVE — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told the Washington Examiner he opposes a vote on eliminating the filibuster, warning that putting Senate Republicans on the record would only ...
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) denied Wednesday that he reversed his stance on the Senate filibuster rules to curry favor with President Trump amid speculation that he made the switch in order to win the ...
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 ...