WASHINGTON (AP) — Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats’ unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate ...

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“TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER NOW … END THE RIDICULOUS SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATELY,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. And, also in capital letters, he explained why: “AND THEN, MOST IMPORTANTLY, PASS EVERY ...

Representative Jason Smith criticizes the United States Senate's gridlock on crucial legislation, including a bipartisan housing bill and the popular Save America Act, despite overwhelming House ...

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 ...

FIGHTING THE GOVERNMENT-CLOSING DEMOCRATIC FILIBUSTER. In the last week or so, there have been two conflicting interpretations of what is going on among the Senate Democrats who are using the ...

Doing Nothing about ‘Cooked’ FDA Safety Standards Isn’t an Option Audio By Carbonatix Proponents of the “talking filibuster” quagmire like to point to the success of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as ...

Dec. 27 (UPI) --President Donald Trump and Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent urged an end to the Senate filibuster rule ahead of an anticipated budget battle in January. Bessent submitted an op-ed that The ...

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 ...

Some days you sit down to write a column and realize all the ideas you have are going to piss a large section of the audience off. At that point, you have a choice to either pick one and plow ahead, ...

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has reversed his position on eliminating the Senate filibuster. During his 2022 campaign, Fetterman advocated for abolishing the filibuster to help pass legislation. Fetterman ...