Merkley condemned the Trump administration over several measures during the speech, including the president’s use of military troops to crack down on crime in major U.S. cities and protect Immigration ...

A defining feature of the U.S. Senate for more than two centuries, the concept of using long speeches to delay action or bring awareness to a cause has been at the heart of some of the most ...

The filibuster is keeping the government shutdown alive. Republicans hold a majority in the Senate, but filibustering ...

She is now simply Wendy. As the leader of a last-minute fight against a rigid antiabortion bill, the filibustering, pink-sneaker-shod, Harvard Law School–trained, hardscrabble Texas-raised state ...

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Today, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis will attempt to spend 13 hours filibustering a generally senseless state law that would, effectively, ban abortion within the state of Texas. As of this writing, ...

President Obama is imploring the Senate to take up his forthcoming nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court — a decade after he himself sought to block the nomination of Samuel ...

Yesterday, Texas Senator and Goddamn Hero Wendy Davis intended to stand for 13 hours, filibustering before her fellow state senators to block abortion-restricting legislation known as Senate Bill 5 ...

Representative Seth Magaziner put Kristi Noem in her place during a recent House hearing recently, stopping her from filibustering. Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted ...