WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday again called for Republican senators to terminate the filibuster rule in a bid to end what is now the longest government shutdown in ...

The government shutdown has reached its 36th day, the longest in U.S. history, as President Donald Trump pressures Republicans to end the Senate filibuster in order to reopen the government."It's time ...

Trump’s calls to eliminate the filibuster and also to do away with blue slips, which allow Senators to hold judicial appointments in their own states, have so far not found much support The post Trump ...

Jang Dong-hyeok, leader of the main opposition People Power Party, speaks to reporters after completing his filibuster speech at a plenary session at the National Assembly on Dec. 23, 2025, in protest ...

To nuke the filibuster or not to nuke the filibuster? That’s the big question as we head into the sixth week of a record federal government shutdown. We keep hearing that the filibuster is a powerful ...

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 ...