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President Donald Trump isn’t dropping his quest to eliminate the filibuster. That’s going to get complicated for Senate Republicans in an election year. The president’s fixation with undoing the ...
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivered a 25-hour speech on the Senate floor this week, surpassing the previous Senate record for longest speech. Although Booker's speech resembled a filibuster, it ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was first published in 2021, when Democrats were trying to end the filibuster. It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate ...
U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) have been arguing over the possibility of Congress passing President ...