Regarding John Curtis’s op-ed “I Won’t Change the Filibuster” (July 31): Sen. Curtis praises the Senate’s 1960s version of the filibuster but overlooks the procedural change that transformed it.

Senate staffers make beds in the Capitol in preparation for a possible filibuster in 2005. (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke) Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) says that though he used to support the filibuster, ...

As President Donald Trump intensifies his push to eliminate the Senate filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, lawmakers are exposing familiar fault lines over when the chamber's 60-vote rule should, ...

Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley says he still supports the Senate filibuster, even as President Donald Trump increasingly is pressuring Republicans to eliminate the procedure to pass a GOP election bill ...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman is siding with Democrats — at least this week. There are some issues nailed into the Republican platform, like tax cuts and deregulation. There are some knitted into the ...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has reversed his position on abolishing the filibuster as Senate Republicans work to pass the SAVE America Act. Fetterman penned an op-ed on Tuesday for The Washington Post ...

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Ben Sasse’s op-ed “America Needs the Filibuster” (July 20) makes a persuasive case for why the filibuster is an important part of our country’s governance. I agree that a permanent filibuster makes ...

Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Sunday defended the filibuster, saying the U.S. needs it in the Senate. Sasse wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the filibuster “provides a bulwark against ...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has reversed his position on eliminating the Senate filibuster. During his 2022 campaign, Fetterman advocated for abolishing the filibuster to help pass legislation. Fetterman ...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Tuesday said it was “wrong” for Democrats to attempt to eliminate the filibuster during the Biden administration and argued eliminating the procedure would lead to ...