The Supreme Court confirmation process has become a raw power struggle, with both parties abandoning shared rules and norms, ...

Virginia's GOP nominee for lieutenant governor says he would vote no on amendments enshrining abortion, gay marriage and ...

The centerpiece of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda just hit a roadblock in an obscure official who suddenly wields huge power: Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.The little-known arbiter of ...

While she was appointed by former Democratic Senator Harry Reid, she has served Senates controlled by both ... Because of these rules, Republicans can avoid a Democratic filibuster on the bill and ...

MacDonough is an appointee of the late former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and formerly advised then-Vice President ... Proposals that MacDonough rules against would be subject to the ...

Key parts of the Senate budget proposal containing vast swathes of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda are on the chopping ...

The filibuster is fundamental to the protection of the minority’s right to debate and to offer amendments. This has made the Senate a unique body for more than 200 years.

In 2013 Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Senate Democrats shattered a long-standing norm by abolishing the filibuster for judicial and executive-branch nominees other than Supreme Court justices.

Congress honored the late Sen. Harry Reid on Wednesday, amid a renewed debate on something Reid was familiar with fighting: the filibuster.

Reid came out for killing the filibuster in 2019, arguing that it had outlived its usefulness and was suppressing the popular will. “The legislative filibuster is gone,” he told me that summer.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Adam Jentleson, who served as the deputy chief of staff to Sen. Harry Reid, about the impact President Biden's support of changing Senate rules has on the filibuster.