WASHINGTON – Several Senate Democrats from swing states joined with Republicans Friday to clear the final hurdle to passing ...

Senators on Thursday cleared the final filibuster test for the Laken Riley Act, setting up a final vote on legislation that ...

A bipartisan bill to crack down on illegal immigration narrowly overcame its second and final 60-vote filibuster Friday, all ...

The bill would require that infants born alive after an attempted abortion receive the same protection as any newborn baby, ...

The new found cohesion came as Democrats strategize how to resist Trump’s second-term agenda, his nominees, and GOP Hill leaders laying groundwork for 2026.

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune is kicking off the new session with a promise to preserve the filibuster, saying in his ...

The Senate did tack on a Republican amendment that added assault of law enforcement officers to the list of crimes that would ...

opened the two-year Senate session Friday with a vow to keep the filibuster. The filibuster is a controversial legislative tactic that allows senators to delay consideration of a measure and ...

The bill would require the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take an undocumented migrant into custody if charged ...

In 2017, Trump called on Senate Republicans to ditch the filibuster when it threatened to slow his agenda. “Republicans in the Senate will NEVER win if they don’t go to a 51 vote majority NOW.

Thune's comments came just after the Senate gaveled in to begin its new session. In his maiden floor speech as Senate majority leader, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota used his first few minutes of ...