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

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

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

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 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 ...

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 Biden reiterated his support for the “talking filibuster,” where senators must be present and talking on the floor to block bills. “It’s being abused in a gigantic way,” Mr. Biden said on ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. For much of 2026, Donald Trump has intermittently demanded that the Senate enact the SAVE America Act ...