The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative ...

Republican senators joined the Democrats' effort to end President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian, Brazilian and global ...

The Senate majority leader is unwilling to pursue the “nuclear option” to blow past a Democratic filibuster and reopen the ...

Republicans on Friday showed little sign of heeding President Donald Trump's latest call to jettison the Senate filibuster ...

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster. That's so the Republican majority can bypass ...

The filibuster allows the minority party in the US Senate to block bills should they fail to reach 60 votes in favour.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune's stance on the filibuster is "unchanged" despite President Trump's call to scrap the rule to end the government shutdown. Follow live updates here.

The US federal government is nearing its longest shutdown ever, impacting a fragile economy with economists warning of ...

While the election is still more than a year away, there are already political ads running in Maine’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race.