Why the former Senate majority leader decided to end the filibuster.

Updated at 6:23 p.m. ET Former President Barack Obama called on Americans to honor the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis by working to expand voting rights — and if Congress has to abolish the ...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul stood up shortly before noon Wednesday and announced his intention to filibuster President Barack Obama's nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA. "I will speak until I can ...

Senators Marc Rubio and James Inhofe joined three other Republican colleagues threatening to filibuster any restrictions on guns Thursday, NBC’s First Read team writes. They have added their names to ...

President Donald Trump is continuing to advocate for the Senate GOP to nix the filibuster. In a Monday Truth Social post, the president shared a video featuring clips of former Attorney General Eric ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nev.), said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that Democrats needed to change Senate procedure and remove a 60-vote threshold for President Barack Obama's ...

Instead of caving on the shutdown, Democrats should have waited for the GOP to cave on Trump’s demand to scotch this antidemocratic tactic. There were only ever two ways the government shutdown was ...