President Donald Trump isn’t dropping his quest to eliminate the filibuster. That’s going to get complicated for Senate Republicans in an election year. The president’s fixation with undoing the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly-split chamber after Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that ...

The U.S. Senate was designed for serious debate, thoroughly vetting and refining laws before they are deployed to reshape the nation. In practice, though, the upper chamber has become a graveyard for ...

During Donald Trump’s first term, Washington insiders coined the phrase “speaking to an audience of one.” It described senators, aides, or cable pundits tailoring their remarks for a single viewer in ...

TPM Reader TB dropped me a note this afternoon about today’s second post. He liked it. Then he wrote ...

You have to hand it to John Cornyn: In suddenly coming out for the destruction of the Senate filibuster, he acknowledges this contradicts his long-standing position on the subject. But in an op-ed, he ...

The Trump Slush Fund Is an Abuse of Political Power, Not a Legal Wrong The right should know better than to let the left dictate the terms of battle. On rages the fight by a faction of the right to ...