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Experts told Newsweek that the party's attempt to fast-track Trump's budget could hold long-term consequences for Senate ...
Republicans used a new budget gimmick to obscure the cost of President Trump's $4 trillion tax and spending bill in a new ...
In an effort to more painlessly pass Trump’s wildly unpopular tax and spending bill, Republicans are pushing for a creative ...
In the background of the Senate Republican struggle to give Donald Trump his One Big Beautiful Bill, something historic is ...
Senate Democrats went nuclear Monday morning in an effort to prevent Republicans from enacting a permanent extension of ...
Senate Republicans used their majority on Monday to set a new budgeting precedent, disregarding longstanding rules affecting ...
The Senate, on Monday, failed to approve a provision to remove illegal aliens from Medicaid despite a majority of lawmakers ...
Who is Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth Macdonough that ruled against Medicaid in Trump's 'big beautiful bill' Here's what to ...
The Byrd Rule, adopted in 1985, is a procedural constraint named after the late Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia to ...
But there appear not to be enough votes in the Senate to allow for such a rule exception. Do most Americans even know what a filibuster is? Well, it isn't exactly on every American's mind: Our ...
People walk outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on June 9, 2022. The Senate needs to reform the filibuster to better serve the American public, the director of the Project on ...
When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom whereby a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass legislation.