As President Donald Trump intensifies his push to eliminate the Senate filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, lawmakers are exposing familiar fault lines over when the chamber's 60-vote rule should, ...

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., wrote in a Washington Post column that he now believes Democrats were wrong to try to eliminate the Senate filibuster. "It's not often you hear someone in D.C. admit they ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 In some mythical future when Dems regain a majority in the Senate, they might well scrap the filibuster. But for now, it’s their lifeboat. Photo Illustration ...

Like this article? Keep independent journalism alive. Support HuffPost. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) says he was "deeply wrong" when he fought to eliminate the Senate filibuster during Joe Biden's ...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has flip-flopped on a key issue he ran on in 2022 — eliminating the Senate filibuster. On June 2, the Pennsylvania Democrat sat down with Katie Miller, wife of White House ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Sunday defended the filibuster, saying the U.S. needs it in the Senate. Sasse wrote in a Wall ...

President Trump’s strong desire for the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act before the midterm elections, in the face of opposition from Democrats and some Republicans, has reignited debate over the ...

I have addressed the filibuster issue many times in the past two decades, but it is worth addressing again. Several points are relevant. The first is the necessary but futile caution to activists to ...

How important is it, really, the pending change to Senate rules to end the possibility of filibustering nominations to the Supreme Court? It will result in Judge Neil Gorsuch’s joining the court, ...

Everyone is trying to figure out what prompted the Democrats to surrender and end the government shutdown, giving Trump a big ...