Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) have teamed up in calling for several major reforms to the Senate ...

Two years ago, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., published a book about restoring the so-called talking filibuster and repairing ...

WASHINGTON — Some in the GOP’s full-force push to pass legislation that would add requirements to vote in U.S. elections have ...

Some things just keep coming back, like Rasputin after being stabbed, poisoned, shot and defenestrated, or like Scream II and III. The Congressional equivalent is the filibuster. I didn’t want to ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans used a filibuster Friday to block a Democratic bill to launch a bipartisan probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. It was the first time under new President Joe ...

I have addressed the filibuster issue many times in the past two decades, but it is worth addressing again. Several points are relevant. The first is the necessary but futile caution to activists to ...

President Donald Trump has changed his pitch to wary Republicans who are hesitant to undo a decades-old safeguard in the Senate: if they do nothing, he may be the last Republican president. Trump has ...

President Donald Trump has made his position clear: He wants Senate Republicans to nuke the legislative filibuster and push through a sprawling voter ID bill. It’s enough to make some Republicans ...

Try telling a voter you had the majority, that you control the rules, and let a rule beat you anyway. See how that goes.