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For years, Democrats argued that the 60-vote threshold to cut off debate is an antiquated racist tool. Now, they celebrate it.
The Trump administration has fired two Democratic board members from the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the ...
In 2013, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid eliminated the filibuster for presidential appointments and judicial nominees—except for those to the Supreme Court. Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell ...
The SAVE Act mandates proof of citizenship for federal voting, yet it faces challenges in the Senate despite bipartisan ...
The Democratic leader said he’d take “extraordinary action” if the president disobeyed the Supreme Court. Well, Trump is ...
The day after the election, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY ... what anybody thinks about him.” Thus, if McConnell could use the filibuster to stop campaign finance legislation ...
And that’s because Mitch McConnell came forward today and voted yes on cloture. This is overcoming the filibuster. To get to that final confirmation, two senators that we expected to vote no ...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed former Fox News host ... The Senate voted 80-19 on Tuesday to break a filibuster on the $95 billion aid package recently passed by the House.
This failure of leadership is particularly maddening from the leader of the opposition party in the Senate, because the upper chamber remains an institution that, as Mitch McConnell demonstrated ...