A defining feature of the U.S. Senate for more than two centuries, the concept of using long speeches to delay action or bring awareness to a cause has been at the heart of some of the most ...

Today, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis will attempt to spend 13 hours filibustering a generally senseless state law that would, effectively, ban abortion within the state of Texas. As of this writing, ...

She is now simply Wendy. As the leader of a last-minute fight against a rigid antiabortion bill, the filibustering, pink-sneaker-shod, Harvard Law School–trained, hardscrabble Texas-raised state ...

Democratic US Senators have now launched the first partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee in American history in an attempt to defeat Judge Neil Gorsuch. They seem to be doing so because their ...

Senate Democrats have pushed through a historic rule change that will end the filibustering of most executive and judicial nominees. By a simple majority, Democrats voted to lower the threshold for ...

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley says it’s time for the U.S. Senate to overhaul the filibuster process, through which a single senator can throw a wrench into the legislative process. His proposal: Require ...

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British PM Keir Starmer speaks to journalists after meeting on Ukraine, in Paris LONDON (Reuters) -Russia is stalling progress towards a peace deal in Ukraine, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said ...

On Wednesday night, Tucker Carlson took on former U.N. ambassador Nancy Soderberg over the latest developments on the Obama-era Uranium One Deal that reportedly involved Russian corruption that was ...

President Obama is imploring the Senate to take up his forthcoming nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court — a decade after he himself sought to block the nomination of Samuel ...

During her remarks in a Senate hearing in January, Senator Elissa Slotkin mocked Pete Hegseth over his inability to answer a simple question. Slotkin stated, "I get it; you're filibustering." ...

Park Soo-min, a lawmaker of the opposition People Power Party, returns from the bathroom at a plenary session of the National ...