Democrats don't have to look back far into history to see how getting rid of the legislative filibuster would work out. In ...

With Republicans projected to win the Senate majority in the 2024 election, "the filibuster will stand," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell noted on Wednesday. Even when one party controls a ...

Ahead of the elections, a variety of Democratic candidates and leaders, including Kamala Harris, were fully on board with overhauling the Senate’s filibuster rule. Those efforts, as the Senate ...

Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., for their refusal to end the filibuster. “My position is that filibuster has to get reformed. It’s not a tool of compromise, it’s a tool of ...

In 2017, then-Sen. Harris and I signed a bipartisan letter from 61 senators committing to defend the Senate’s legislative filibuster. We wanted to ensure “that this great American institution ...

Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin for their refusal to end the filibuster. U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego once called the 60-vote Senate rule “a tool of obstruction,” back when Democrats ran the joint.

His favored change, the talking filibuster, would require Democrats to fight back by speaking nonstop on the Senate floor if a future Republican majority tries to pass, for example, a national ...

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If only someone would have warned them that no one wins when you abolish the filibuster. As that example from a decade ago ...

Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., for their refusal to end the filibuster. “My position is that filibuster has to get reformed. It’s not a tool of compromise, it’s a tool of ...