代码已经复制到剪贴板。 美国国会参议院少数党想要阻止一项议案的时候会怎么做呢? 答案是filibuster。参议院历史学家里奇说:"Filibuster就是利用任何 ...

GOP Senators are chipping away at the 60-vote threshold, marking one more step toward majority rule in the upper chamber.

Simmering debate on the future of the filibuster has increased further now that President Biden has endorsed proposals to force senators who filibuster to hold the Senate floor, in the hopes that ...

Updated November 22, 2013, 2:24 PM Senator Harry Reid’s recent pledge to reform the filibuster is welcome, but in an era of extreme polarization, modest procedural change won’t enable the ...

House Republicans rescued their “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill from an early death in the Senate Wednesday by passing a ...

The filibuster, once an obscure procedure, has been increasingly used to stall priorities of the majority coalition. Such strategies are as old as representative democracy. The filibuster as a ...

In “The Senate’s Byrd Call” (Potomac Watch, Jan. 29), Kimberley A. Strassel defends the filibuster as a means of achieving bipartisanship, and she further argues against undermining the so ...

Editor’s Note: Republican Charlie Dent is a former US congressman from Pennsylvania who served as chairman of the House Ethics Committee from 2015 until 2016 and chairman of the House ...

WASHINGTON – Changing the filibuster rules in the split Senate is again at the center of debate as voting rights legislation gets renewed attention on Capitol Hill. Some Congressional ...

The other day, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hurled fearsome threats at Democrats, warning that they will rue ending the legislative filibuster, because if they dare, he will grind ...

Potomac Watch: Democrats want to ‘fix’ the chamber by ending the filibuster. But that would ultimately break it. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Progressives are making a ...

Here’s a way to address the tactic used to stall the Senate and upend presidential agendas. By Burt Neuborne and Erwin Chemerinsky The writers are law professors. For President Biden to succeed ...