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Senate Clears Farm Bill, Setting Up Fight With House GOP Over SNAP Donald Trump is the tiebreaker, and while he’s demagogued about SNAP work requirements, he’s not threatening a veto if they are missing.
By Ed Kilgore
A Red State Finally Rejects an Abortion Ban In South Carolina a Democratic legislator mockingly asks Republicans to pass a total abortion ban they know to be unconstitutional. They nearly did.
By Ed Kilgore
Congress to Vote on 2,232-Page Spending Bill Before Ink Is Dry More than halfway through fiscal year 2018, Congress still can’t fund the federal government in an orderly and timely manner.
By Ed Kilgore
Pelosi’s ‘DACA-buster’ Speech Likely a Record-Setter for the House Pelosi can’t stop a spending deal that excludes DACA. But she can talk about it.
By Ed Kilgore
House GOP Passes Spending Bill Aimed at Shifting Shutdown Blame to Democrats Since real negotiations have failed, the government is probably shutting down on Friday — and now it’s all about the blame game.
By Ed Kilgore
Tide of Right-Wing Judges Could Recede Quickly If Democrats Take Back the Senate The GOP’s Alabama fiasco and a 2018 wave election could bring back a Democratic Senate and ruin the right’s plan to control the judiciary.
By Ed Kilgore
Voters, Not Just Politicians, Are Polarized by Party and Ideology While some observers think of polarization as a Washington phenomenon that doesn’t reflect the citizenry, fresh evidence shows otherwise.
By Ed Kilgore
Right-to-Lifers Look for a New Hostage for Their Demands The anti-abortion lobby is rejecting suggestions to wait until next year to defund Planned Parenthood. They want to put it in the tax bill right now.
By Ed Kilgore
White House and McConnell Trade Barbs Over Trumpcare Failure The Senate Majority Leader suggests Trump’s impatience led to Trumpcare’s defeat. Trump thinks McConnell is just making excuses.
By Eric Levitz
No, Filibusters Aren’t Keeping 50 Republican Senators From Reaching Agreement Sean Duffy (like Donald Trump) wants to blame the threat of filibusters for blocking GOP bills. But the big ones aren’t subject to filibusters.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Is Going to Lose It When He Finds Out About This Obscure Senate Rule He has just nominated ten federal judges. Democratic senators can use the arcane “blue slip” practice to block three.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Calls for Government Shutdown in September On Twitter, Trump says a government shutdown or elimination of the legislative filibuster might be a good thing when the next funding fight arrives.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Could Probably Kill the Legislative Filibuster Senate Republicans would have a hard time defending the “archaic system” that’s making the president’s agenda more difficult to pass.
By Eric Levitz
There Could Be a Ton of Drama in Washington This Week Possibly a government shutdown crisis, the return of Trumpcare, and the unveiling of the president’s tax-reform plan — or none of the above.
By Ed Kilgore
Frustrated Trump May Be Tempted to Push for Total ‘Nuking’ of the Filibuster Anything Trump has been able to accomplish has involved getting around the filibuster. He might decide to try to just get rid of it once and for all.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate Goes Nuclear, Eliminates Filibuster for Supreme Court Confirmations The long-awaited GOP move to force confirmation of Neil Gorsuch and future nominees by a simple majority has finally happened.
By Ed Kilgore
The Filibuster Deserves to Die If the Democrats’ attempt to block Gorsuch leads to the abolition of the filibuster, that would be a good thing.
By Eric Levitz
Red-State Democratic Senators Don’t Seem Scared to Act Like Democrats A potential Gorsuch filibuster will be a key test. But early indications are that few are breaking party ranks.
By Ed Kilgore
Another Government Shutdown Crisis Seems to Be Approaching Before GOP can “move on” to tax reform, it must deal with the real risk of an internal revolt against the current budget.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP’s Planned Parenthood Fight Could Result in a Government Shutdown If no longer nestled in a giant health-care bill, the defunding of the women’s health organization could spark an appropriations fight.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Prepares to Go Nuclear Over Gorsuch Republicans are taking umbrage at Democrats’ questioning of Gorsuch so that they can justify killing a filibuster against him.
By Ed Kilgore
How to Understand the Gorsuch Confirmation Fight The two parties will promote very different standards for what a SCOTUS nominee needs for confirmation. Gorsuch’s may require “nuking” a filibuster.
By Ed Kilgore
How Republicans Could Nuke the Rules to Pass Trumpcare This one weird trick involves an arcane interpretation of budget rules that would end the filibuster.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Senators Are Anxious About Nuking the Filibuster The threat of the filibuster may be the only way for Senate Republicans to resist Trump, should that need arise.
By Chas Danner
Two Senior Republican Senators Say the Filibuster Must Stay Orrin Hatch and Lindsey Graham say no to the nuclear option.
By Ed Kilgore
Under President Trump, Big Changes Are on the Way for America — and Soon With Republicans controlling both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, a lot of reactionary legislation will probably be enacted very fast.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Are Ready to End the Filibuster on Supreme Court Nominees By promising to stop any SCOTUS nomination, the GOP has invited Democrats to kill off the filibuster. Harry Reid says they will.
By Ed Kilgore
If Republicans Win the White House and Senate, the U.S. Will See Radical Changes Historically, the Senate filibuster has put the brakes on huge legislative shifts. That will probably not be the case under a Trump administration.
By Ed Kilgore
Murphy: Terror Suspect Gun Measure Has the Votes After leading a 15-hour filibuster on the Senate floor, Senator Chris Murphy says one measure he pushed for could pass.
By Jonah Shepp
early and often
6/16/2016
By Claire Landsbaum
Supreme Court Opening Creates ‘Battle of a Different Order’ Ideological and partisan polarization plus availability of the filibuster could mean an epic Court fight that could go on well past the elections.
By Ed Kilgore
Senate Democrats Threaten Nuclear Option and Win Republicans have to let executive branch hostages go.
By Jonathan Chait
Democrats Threaten to Slightly Alter Filibuster GOP leader says Harry Reid would become “the worst leader of the Senate ever.”
By Dan Amira
first responders
12/9/2010
GOP Filibuster Defeats 9/11 Responders Bill in the Senate “A tragic example of partisan politics trumping patriotism.”
By Stephanie Vallejo
don't ask don't tell
11/19/2010
By Nitasha Tiku
don't ask don't tell
11/14/2010
Senate Republicans Promise to Keep ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Alive John McCain and John Cornyn basically tell Senate Democrats it’s not worth their time.
By Avi Zenilman
white men with money oversight
4/28/2010
By Dan Amira
Joe Lieberman Is Playing Some Crazy Mind Games Will he filibuster health care? It’s impossible to tell.
By Dan Amira
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