Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday shot down Donald Trump's demand to nuke the filibuster in order to help pass a contentious election reform bill, according to Politico, with the leading ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Trump’s call for Republicans to “take over” voting procedures in more than a dozen states and “nationalize” the midterm ...

Trump is ramping up pressure on Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster—an action known as the “nuclear option.” ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Wednesday that there’s not enough consensus in the Senate ...

With just a few small tweaks to the rules, filibuster reform proponents believe, the U.S. Senate could eliminate the gridlock afflicting the federal judicial confirmation process: no more senators ...

Nevertheless, some Republicans are still calling on Thune to reinstate the “talking filibuster,” where senators who oppose a ...

Senate Republicans are increasingly chattering about changing the filibuster’s rules if Democrats do not end the shutdown, even though Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says he opposes ...

The following editorial was written by Bloomberg Opinion: As the latest and longest government shutdown enters its denouement, Congress will be left to tally the costs and repair the damage. One thing ...

President Trump’s call for Republicans to “take over” voting procedures in more than a dozen states and “nationalize” the midterm elections has Republican senators debating filibuster reform to get ...