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Filibuster refers to the legitimate act of obstructing parliamentary proceedings by the minority. Although the National Assembly Act refers to this as ...

Pressure is building on Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to scrap the filibuster in order to pass President Trump's voting regulation agenda, known as the SAVE America Act. The filibuster is ...

As the government shutdown nears becoming the longest in U.S. history, President Donald Trump has called on Senate Republicans to end the filibuster in order to bring the stalemate on Capitol Hill to ...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul stood up shortly before noon Wednesday and announced his intention to filibuster President Barack Obama's nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA. "I will speak until I can ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) faced pointed questioning from CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins over his call to end the Senate filibuster, despite having defended it as essential when Republicans were in the ...