President Joe Biden might have no intention of keeping his promise to bring back bipartisanship and moderation to Washington, D.C., but Sen. Joe Manchin does. The West Virginia Democrat reiterated ...

Pressure is mounting on moderate Democratic senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to change Senate rules to advance legislation that the Biden Administration says is vital to protecting the right to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Senate was designed for serious debate, thoroughly vetting and refining laws before they are deployed to reshape the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a pivotal vote in the evenly divided Senate, said on Wednesday he was opposed to a process called reconciliation that makes it easier to ...

The federal government has been shut down for over a month, and political finger-pointing has persisted since it began. Republicans claim that they have passed clean continuing resolutions that get ...

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska are urging congressional leaders to embark on a broad rewrite of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a ...

President Trump is right in his a call for the Senate to eliminate the filibuster — the procedural rule requiring a 60-vote supermajority to advance most legislation. Critics decry this as a power ...

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., argued in an op-ed on Breitbart Monday that Senate Republicans should eliminate the filibuster to pass “America First” policies and prevent the “United Caliphate of ...

The U.S. Senate was designed for serious debate, thoroughly vetting and refining laws before they are deployed to reshape the nation. In practice, though, the upper chamber has become a graveyard for ...