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Congressional Republicans are once again debating changes to decadeslong filibuster rules, but the party is still divided.
The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was known speak until nightfall on the floor of the ...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) denied promising that Senate Republicans would weaken the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act, telling the Washington Examiner on Tuesday that he only agreed to speak with the rest of his conference about it.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent encouraged Republicans to eliminate the filibuster in a Washington Post op-ed on Sunday. "For generations, the filibuster has been romanticized as the Senate's guardian of deliberation," Bessent wrote. "In reality, it ...
Dec. 27 (UPI) --President Donald Trump and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged an end to the Senate filibuster rule ahead of an anticipated budget battle in January. Bessent submitted an op-ed that The Washington Post published on Saturday and blames Senate ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly-split chamber after Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that Senate Democrats preserve the procedural tool known ...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made waves on Wednesday by doubling down on demanding Senate Republicans abolish the filibuster to speed up President Donald Trump’s agenda. Trump wants Senate Republicans to gut the Senate filibuster, the 60 ...