Derived from a Dutch word for pirate or "freebooter" in the 19th Century, the "filibuster," as it's called, has been a part of the US political process since the early days of the American republic.

Erick Erickson has laid out some of the reasons why conservatives should seek to keep the filibuster for legislation, and in the Senate, Orrin Hatch and Lindsey Graham have expressed opposition to ...

(Bloomberg) -- With President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans winning control of the White House plus both chambers of Congress in the Nov. 5 election, the Democrats will have one ...

Harry Reid is a former Senate majority leader from Nevada. A real fix for this country would be the abolition of the Senate filibuster in all its forms, allowing for a simple majority vote ...

Filibusters over legislation date back to the 1830s. By contrast, nominations (as this law-review article co-authored by parliamentary expert Martin B. Gold puts it) were “swept into” a reform ...

That procedural tool? The filibuster, which requires 60 voters for the Senate to pass most legislation—except for judicial nominations and some budget bills. The filibuster rule, those House ...

Senator Anderson's proposal to reduce the majority needed to invoke cloture from two-thirds to three-fifths of those present and voting went down in the face of a predictable Southern filibuster ...

The filibuster empowers the minority and frustrates the majority. Extended debate has always been a part of the way the Senate does its legislative business. Copied This week on the “Heritage ...

More than a dozen Senate Republicans Tuesday lambasted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats as hypocrites over their push to defang the chamber's 60-vote filibuster rule and pass ...

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a former Democrat turned independent who is retiring in January, tells "Face the Nation ...

From abolishing the Senate filibuster to packing the court, Democrats have proposed a wide array of actions that would lay waste to the American political landscape. Fast-forward to the dawn of ...