Do you remember when Democrats proposed killing the filibuster but failed? They should be thankful for that now.

From abolishing the Senate filibuster to packing the court, Democrats have proposed a wide array of actions that would lay waste to the American political landscape. Fast-forward to the dawn of ...

McConnell extended the exemption from the filibuster to Supreme Court nominees ... parties tend to believe short-term ends justify the means and are willing to look like hypocrites in the process.

Given that Republicans are only projected to control 53 out of the 100 senate seats, this means that Democrats will be able to block many proposed pieces of legislation. Faced with such obstruction, ...

and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) signaling support for the filibuster as a means to block President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming agenda. “I’d be lying if I said we’d be in a better ...

And while you might argue that that means we need the filibuster now more than ever, I would argue that if you’re depending on the filibuster to save us, you’re depending on a paper tiger.

But a talking filibuster would mean opponents would have to continuously hold the floor and thus halt all other chamber business — a strategy that proponents say would force compromise.

Lord Blunkett said critics were repeating points that had already been made in a bid to delay the Bill passing through the ...

Now, as Congressional Republicans prepared to ride their down ballot success, courtesy of President-elect Trump, into the majority, leftist leaders had a new song to sing about the filibuster.

The Senate filibuster first captured the American imagination in Frank Capra's 1939 movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," when Jimmy Stewart's character spoke for more than a day before collapsing ...

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 ...