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February 24, 2023 - A filibuster by Omaha Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh began in February 2023, stalling the movement of legislation in the Nebraska Unicameral for several weeks. It came after the Let Them ...

President Donald Trump has begun tying his desire to repeal the Senate‘s filibuster rule to next year‘s midterm elections and the 2028 presidential contest, contending that Republicans will perform ...

President Donald Trump called for the Senate to eliminate the filibuster on Friday, sharing an op-ed from his Treasury Secretary making the case. “It’s time to end the filibuster,” Trump posted to his ...

As the government shutdown nears becoming the longest in U.S. history, President Donald Trump has called on Senate Republicans to end the filibuster in order to bring the stalemate on Capitol Hill to ...

President Donald Trump again called on Republican senators to end the filibuster this month, a pitch he has made many times before. Thankfully, Senate Republican leadership responded with a strong “no ...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) faced pointed questioning from CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins over his call to end the Senate filibuster, despite having defended it as essential when Republicans were in the ...

Frustrated by the ongoing government shutdown, President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on Senate Republicans to go for the “nuclear option” and get rid of the filibuster in recent days. “It is ...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul stood up shortly before noon Wednesday and announced his intention to filibuster President Barack Obama's nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA. "I will speak until I can ...

Donald Trump—juggling a war that shows more signs every week of dragging on far longer than he imagined, a nation of enraged air travelers, and a day of protests against him that was the largest of ...