Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A defining feature of the U.S. Senate for more than two centuries, the concept of using long speeches to delay action or bring ...

Contrary to recent mythology, there has never been a Senate tradition of filibustering nominees to the Supreme Court. Only once in history has there been a clear attempt to filibuster a first-time ...

As a clinical psychologist and academic, I have observed many covert attempts to block social justice efforts within the various systems in which I work. I have been asked to write multiple memos or ...

Every night, Democratic Nebraska state Senators Machaela Cavanaugh, Megan Hunt, and Jen Day make the hour drive from the state capitol in Lincoln to their homes in Omaha, exhausted from speaking for ...

It was a mundane, unanimously supported bill on liquor taxation that saw state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh take to the mic on the Nebraska Legislature floor last week. She offered her support, then spent ...

On Thursday, news that Nebraska Democrats narrowly defeated a six-week abortion ban came as a shock, as state after state—particularly in the Midwest and the South—passes bans in the aftermath of Roe ...

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) railed against “unprecedented Republican filibustering” that has delayed the debate over a climate change bill. Though senators from both parties agreed ...

Harold Hutchison is a contributor to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, left Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas stumbling during a Wednesday hearing by ...

During her remarks in a Senate hearing in January, Senator Elissa Slotkin mocked Pete Hegseth over his inability to answer a simple question. Slotkin stated, "I get it; you're filibustering." ...