The filibuster — which in effect forces a Senate majority to pass legislation with 60 votes instead of 51 — is eroding, a victim of its own success. In the 1970s, changes to Senate rules made it both politically and procedurally easier to filibuster — the “two-track” system allowed the Senate to continue routine process despite an ongoing filibuster, and the rise of the “virtual filibuster” allowed Senate minorities to block business without physically taking the podium and speaking for hours ...
The filibuster — which in effect forces a Senate majority to pass legislation with 60 votes instead of 51 — is eroding, a victim of its own success. In the 1970s, changes to Senate rules made it both politically and procedurally easier to filibuster — the “two-track” system allowed the Senate to continue routine process...
On Sunday morning, President Trump, home from the G20 Summit in Germany, announced on Twitter that “it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia!” If the president’s meeting...
Mitch McConnell spent the July 4 congressional recess committing malpractice as Senate majority leader. As Republican senators back home coped with hostile town-hall meetings and furious...
Based on “interviews with officials familiar with the documents,” The Hill is reporting that more than half of the memoranda former FBI director James Comey made regarding his conversations with...
‘Poland is VERY pretty at night, and the Polish people are nice too. Now I know why both Hitler and Stalin invaded #Poland in WWII.”
I confess, reading that Donald Trump parody tweet on...
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is struggling to line up the 50 Republican votes he needs behind his health-care bill. Conservatives complain that it does not fulfill the GOP’s seven-year...
Suppose your favorite film critic started sprinkling his reviews with references to the “Cowboy Test” and made it clear that he was factoring into his appraisal of a work of art whether it...
