The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson is working with House Republicans to advance a budget bill that would allow Republicans to pass ...

One disqualified candidate, Florida Rep. Debbie Mayfield, files lawsuit. The other one, Gabriel Goddard, plans his own legal action.

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The Senate confirmed Russell Vought to return as head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) after having helmed the ...

When Senate Democratic Leader Schumer says “Jump,” Sen. Angus King of Maine, who purports to be an independent, dutifully ...

Senate Republicans moved Tuesday to take charge of drafting President Trump’s marquee legislative agenda next week after ...

He claims unprecedented power over the budget, fires the leaders of government oversight agencies, and places vast ...

Sen. Angus King of Maine bills himself as an “independent,” but his voting record is such that the Federal Trade Commission ...

John J. Sinclair joined the St. Louis Police Department in 1926. He became a lieutenant. He retired in 1956 and died in 1981.

President Trump already has twice the number of Cabinet secretaries confirmed than he did at this point in his first term, but Senate Republicans are poised to fall short of their goal of meeting the ...

You could take a separate long view of Senate history and look at it as a slow nibbling away at the filibuster. There have ...