Senate Democrats voted to shut down the government for the 10th time Thursday, ensuring more paychecks will be lost and ...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have required 51 votes to pass ...

The Maine governor and establishment pick to challenge GOP Sen. Susan Collins said she wants to keep the Senate's 60-vote ...

Some are asking if President Donald Trump, who has criticized the filibuster, might call for the “nuclear option" to remove ...

Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a forthcoming book, calling his 2022 push to abolish the filibuster a “spectacle.” The book, titled “Dead ...

Joe Manchin's memoir, Dead Center, recounts a secret deal with Chuck Schumer that transformed Biden's Build Back Better spending plan.

But all involved say changing the Senate filibuster rule didn't come up. Roughly a dozen Texas Democrats who fled their state to come to Washington met Thursday in a Capitol Hill basement with the ...