Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US Capitol Police officer stands guard in the empty hallway outside the darkened Senate Floor on Friday. - Jonathan ...

Call it “nuclear” if you are a Democrat or “constitutional” if you are a Republican, but either way a big change is coming in Senate rules on the confirmation of judicial nominees. This change is born ...

Some things just keep coming back, like Rasputin after being stabbed, poisoned, shot and defenestrated, or like Scream II and III. The Congressional equivalent is the filibuster. I didn’t want to ...

Winning a majority in Congress doesn’t settle things in Washington. There are two other hurdles to passing legislation, one constitutional and one not. They are the presidential veto and the Senate ...

The Washington Times reports that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will propose a rules change to end filibusters on executive nominees: Currently, 60 votes are required to break a filibuster, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May and July of 2017, early in his first term, President Donald Trump unleashed flocks of shrieking tweets imploring the Senate ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In this June 9, 2016, photo, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was first published in 2021, when Democrats were trying to end the filibuster. It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate ...