Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) had a heated exchange with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other Democratic ...

Ocasio-Cortez and the former independent senator traded barbs on social media over the Senate filibuster on Saturday.

Ex- U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema called out prominent liberals for endorsing the filibuster during a recent vote on a ...

"Literally zero Senate Democrats support the filibuster. 38 voted to filibuster the continuing resolution yesterday," wrote ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Facing a threat of imminent government shutdown, nine Democrats joined GOP Senate colleagues to defeat a filibuster, moving the six-month government funding bill to final passage in ...

The Senate approved a House GOP-crafted spending bill hours before the shutdown deadline Friday evening, capping off the first funding fight of President Trump’s second term — a saga that ripped ...

Without Democratic votes to break a Senate filibuster, the GOP would not have been able to pass its stopgap spending bill and ...

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Ms Shaheen is the third Democratic senator in a competitive state to announce that she would retire after the midterms. Gary ...

By design, budget reconciliation mostly addresses the parts of federal spending that are not part of the appropriations ...

Back in the minority and seeking to stonewall President Donald Trump, Senate Democrats have transitioned into the latest phase of their love-hate relationship with the filibuster. Democrats launched t ...

House Republicans plan to use reconciliation, which requires a simple majority in the Senate to pass. But both chambers must agree on one single bill to bypass the legislative filibuster.