Because of Republicans’ abuse of the filibuster and their seeming obsession with obstruction, the Senate has become a place where the most pressing issues facing our country—climate change ...

The value of unlimited debate is not so much that it allows free expression as that it gives a desperate minority power to obstruct a majority ... been few frivolous filibusters and almost none ...

(CNN) — When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom whereby a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass ...

Mitch McConnell did the right thing by deploying “the nuclear option,” taking away the filibuster as a tool of Democratic obstruction in the matter of Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the ...

“When holding political power and feeling the hunger and pressure for an immediate partisan win, it is easy to view the legislative filibuster as a weapon of obstruction. It is tempting to ...

Like the great filibusters of the past — "Huey Long ... But there's also another kind of obstruction, too. Even when there are 60 votes — sometimes, even when there are 70 or 80 or even ...