Some things just keep coming back, like Rasputin after being stabbed, poisoned, shot and defenestrated, or like Scream II and III. The Congressional equivalent is the filibuster. I didn’t want to ...

WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, earned headlines for his attempted filibuster Wednesday opposing the Patriot Act and criticizing the National Security Agency’s controversial ...

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Senator Rand Paul - a Republican with strong Libertarian leanings - led a nearly 13-hour filibuster in the U.S. Senate yesterday. He began during proceedings to confirm John Brennan as CIA Director, ...

There’s a hold-up in the Bronx. Brooklyn’s broken out in fights. No more bail thanks to Woke wonks. A million green cards with voting rights. Biden’s border cages are short a child. Non-binary ...

Whenever the gavel switches from the hands of one party to the other in the Senate, lawmakers engage in a public round of debate about a long-established political tradition — the filibuster. With the ...

The story of Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster captivated the national media. In part because of its novelty; we have not seen a real, old-fashioned, pull-out-the-cots-and-go-round-the-clock filibuster in ...

It’s not Dr. Seuss, Mr. Potato Head or Pepe Le Pew. But if you really want to understand the arcane mechanics behind the debate about Democrats potentially eliminating the Senate filibuster, perhaps ...

In a recent series of tweets, American Enterprise Institute scholar Norman Ornstein made some assertions about the judicial-confirmation process that should not go unchallenged. He tweeted that, prior ...

Call it “nuclear” if you are a Democrat or “constitutional” if you are a Republican, but either way a big change is coming in Senate rules on the confirmation of judicial nominees. This change is born ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – American overseas adventurers of old share similarities to today's terrorists, according to a recently released book by a Purdue University professor. "This book is a kind of ...