“TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER NOW … END THE RIDICULOUS SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. And, also in capital letters, he explained why: “AND THEN, MOST IMPORTANTLY, PASS EVERY ...

President Donald Trump isn't dropping his quest to eliminate the filibuster. That's going to get complicated for Senate Republicans in an election year. The president's fixation with undoing the ...

Republican candidates running in some of the most competitive Senate races in 2026 are increasingly weighing in on a growing fight inside the GOP over whether to force Democrats into a “talking ...

Proponents of the “talking filibuster” quagmire like to point to the success of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as evidence that important things can be done by breaking a talking filibuster. After all, ...

FIGHTING THE GOVERNMENT-CLOSING DEMOCRATIC FILIBUSTER. In the last week or so, there have been two conflicting interpretations of what is going on among the Senate Democrats who are using the ...

Democrats must defeat the SAVE America Act without elevating the filibuster—a historically abused tool that has long been used to block civil rights and could again stand in the way of protecting ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol amid ongoing government shutdown discussions, in Washington WASHINGTON (CN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on ...

Dec. 27 (UPI) --President Donald Trump and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged an end to the Senate filibuster rule ahead of an anticipated budget battle in January. Bessent submitted an op-ed that The ...

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So, as we watch the current government shutdown roil on, the question of the filibuster has emerged in our national conversation, at least on the margins. This is because the reason that we are in a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! From the C-SPAN Original Production The Senate: Conflict and Compromise, the concept and the history of the filibuster is explained. U.S. Senate ...