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Democrats spent this week celebrating Booker’s historic “filibuster,” typically an ... speech “may have changed the course of political history.” I’m skeptical. One imagines very ...

Ex-independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema called out several of her former Democratic colleagues over their apparent changing stances on eliminating the filibuster. In January 2022, Sinema and ...

Catherine Cortez Masto, voted to break the filibuster on the funding bill. It’s unclear why some Democrats believe a government shutdown would have helped their political fortunes. Almost every ...

Democrats were against the filibuster before they were for it. It’s unclear why some Democrats believe a government shutdown would have helped their political fortunes. Almost every Republican ...

CORDERO: Critics of the filibuster say that it's broken our political process, holding up too many bills and that nothing ever happens. Today, Thomas Jipping, deputy director of Heritage's Meese ...

A filibuster is when a politician holds a prolonged debate or speech to prevent legislation from passing, such as a bill, a vote, a resolution or an amendment. What Was the Longest Filibuster in ...

Senate Democrats had the chance on March 14. They, or at least the ten needed to short-circuit any potential filibuster, decided the “something” involved had unacceptable consequences (a ...

The senators who refused to filibuster the recent budget deal chose pragmatism over politics. They knew that holding the federal government hostage to score political points wasn’t leadership ...