Last month, Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in response to the ...

The courts may continue to intervene, as some already have, and it is likely that the administration will often lose in those ...

House GOP leaders overcame an important hurdle Thursday morning after cutting a deal with Freedom Caucus holdouts on a budget ...

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including budget resolutions and retirements.

Democrats have fallen back in love with the filibuster. Mere weeks into President Trump’s second term, Senate Democrats are already making liberal use of the obstructive maneuver, flying in the ...

It’s not clear if Canada wants to become a U.S. state, though technically it would be possible without its buy-in ...

Then, at 11:18 a.m., Sen. Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat, took to the Senate floor and started what she hoped would be a 13-hour filibuster of the abortion bill. If Davis managed to keep the ...

Last week, we released an Action Alert that provides a number of new advocacy resources on key issues — health care extenders, Medicaid, enhanced premium tax credits, so-called site-neutral payment ...

There are two main lessons that my Hungarian contacts wanted Americans to learn from their experiences. First, what is happening right now in the United States is exactly what a dying democracy looks ...