Washington dysfunction is usually explained as a failure of people. The wrong politicians. Too partisan. Too extreme. Too unwilling to compromise. That’s comforting. But it’s also wrong. The deeper ...

Senate Republican leadership is not budging against pressure to use a so-called talking filibuster to pass the party’s voter identification legislation, despite President Donald Trump’s adding weight ...

Trump is once again urging Republicans to do away with the Senate filibuster, even as leaders in his own party have opposed ...

Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is, the filibuster is merely a Senate procedure to shut off debate that has existed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have less than no use for the SAVE America Act. Like a lot of liberals I know, I’d be fine with a reasonable law that required ...

Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is that the filibuster is merely a Senate procedure to shut off debate that has ...

Senators are sticking around Washington this weekend after a busy week on the Hill highlighted partisan divides, intraparty ...

Time is not fungible. The time you spend reading this column cannot be "reclaimed." It is gone and it won’t be back. Which is why the "talking filibuster" proposal for the United States Senate is such ...