Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is absolutely right. The upper chamber of Congress is hopelessly gridlocked by filibusters because the legislative procedure, as the Nevada Democrat put it, has been ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, claiming Republicans have engaged in unprecedented obstruction of presidential nominations, signaled Thursday that he would proceed with long-threatened changes to ...

Murmurings of filibuster reform bounced around the blogosphere last week, and not for the first time. But some think the partisan gridlock of the last 18 months may have finally triggered a “This Is ...

Taken from a Dutch word that means “pirate,” a filibuster involves any delaying tactic that blocks the Senate from voting on legislation or a nomination: speaking, forcing repeated votes, or even a ...

Republicans and Democrats have been guilty of attempting to abolish the filibuster when they held power. The truth is that the filibuster is merely a Senate procedure to shut off debate that has ...

In 2013, the then-­majority Democrats in the Senate, under the leadership of Sen. Harry Reid, changed U.S. Senate rules regarding the filibuster to eliminate it, but only for approving presidential ...