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

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats blocked legislation Wednesday aimed at protecting consumers from paying higher prices when new data centers are built in their communities. The vote was 57-43, short of ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Randy Fine criticized the Senate’s legislative hurdles Thursday, calling the 60-vote filibuster threshold a “tyranny of the minority” that blocks critical election security ...

Gabe Fleisher, a Post Opinions contributor, is the author of the Wake Up To Politics newsletter. To hear it spoken of in Washington, the filibuster is either a bogeyman or a boon: a dreaded obstacle ...

As the fall approaches, it’s time to think about respiratory virus season and how to protect yourself. COVID-19 cases are already rising in most parts of the country as a late summer wave sweeps ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump (Charles McQuillan/Getty Images) President Donald Trump on Monday warned that failure by GOP senators to ...

President Donald Trump on Monday warned that failure by GOP senators to terminate the filibuster would make him the "last Republican President" and mean "it will be THE END OF AMERICA!" Trump renewed ...

“If Senate Republicans don’t TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, the Dumocrats will, and I will be, despite how well our Party is doing, the last Republican President!” Trump wrote. “The Dumocrats will vote in ...

In Federalist 22, Alexander Hamilton described “the fundamental maxim of republican form of government … that the sense of the majority should prevail.” The filibuster rule, through its creation of a ...

Senators on Tuesday voted to block the Clarity Act from moving forward, setting back efforts to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for the crypto industry. The Digital Asset Market Clarity ...

The landmark legislation, known as the Clarity Act, stalled in the Senate as Democrats raised concerns about President Trump’s personal investments in crypto. By David Yaffe-Bellany David ...