Ex-independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema called out several of her former Democratic colleagues over their apparent ...

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 stopgap-spending bill after voting to eliminate in in years past.

"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 ...

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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 ...

Professor Doug Elmendorf, a former director of the U.S. congressional Budget Office, discusses the implications of the budget ...

“If you are a Democrat, it is perfectly fine and not at all hypocritical to plan to abolish the filibuster, should you gain a majority in the Senate, but to use it regularly if you do not,” Senate ...

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.