All legislative activity was brought to a screeching halt today as returning Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman unintentionally filibustered the Senate for over seven hours while trying to say "Hello."
Published: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 7:12 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Several Republican state senators in South Carolina blocked a proposed near total abortion ban in the state this week after at least one Republican threatened to filibuster.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2022 @ 12:39 am
By: Daily Wire
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President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he would support nixing the filibuster to pass nationwide abortion laws through the Senate.
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2022 @ 11:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the second-most-powerful Democratic senator, called for filibuster reform “for the good of this country,” a drastic change from his stance on the filibuster when Democrats were in the minority.
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2022 @ 5:24 pm
By: Daily Wire
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After months of flip-flopping on the filibuster and hiding from the press, Cheri Beasley finally emerged and admitted during an interview with WTVD-Raleigh’s Jonah Kaplan that she would eliminate the filibuster if elected to the U.S. Senate.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 6:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Sinema and Manchin vote to stop Dems' plan to kill filibuster, pass extreme voting rights legislation
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 11:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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Democrat President Joe Biden’s voting agenda failed in the Senate late on Wednesday night after a bipartisan majority opposed Democrats’ extreme push to use the “nuclear option” and gut the filibuster.
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 9:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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Sen. Thom Tillis took to the floor to call out the breathtaking hypocrisy.
Published: Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 @ 8:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) trolled Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday where he read Schumer’s previous defenses of the filibuster.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 9:49 pm
By: Daily Wire
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As Joe Biden’s signature “ Build Back Broke” bill collects dust in the Senate, far-left Democrats are pivoting in a desperate ploy to pass “ literally anything” by attempting to eliminate the filibuster.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 3:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As Senate Democrats continue their crusade against the legislative process, Senate hopeful Cheri Beasley is falling in lock-step with Chuck Schumer to radically change the Senate’s rules.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 11:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Schumer threats to nuke filibuster
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 10:25 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Democrat Senate candidates will do anything to stay in the good graces of the radical Left-wing of their party, even if that means eliminating the filibuster to force their reckless, socialist agenda on the American people.
Published: Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 @ 1:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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After months of dodging questions, Democrat Senate Candidate Cheri Beasley finally admitted that she wants to eliminate the filibuster. In a fundraising email, Beasley writes “It’s wrong. We must eliminate the filibuster.”
Published: Monday, November 15th, 2021 @ 12:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) wrote an op-ed for NBC News supporting U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s stance to preserve the filibuster
Published: Thursday, October 14th, 2021 @ 2:41 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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David Harsanyi writes at Real Clear Politics about the Democrats’ dubious approach to the U.S. Senate’s filibuster.
Published: Saturday, July 10th, 2021 @ 12:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Fred Bauer argues at National Review Online in favor of preserving the U.S. Senate’s filibuster.
Published: Friday, July 2nd, 2021 @ 1:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joe Schoffstall and Matthew Foldi of the Washington Free Beacon follow the money trail for the campaign to dismantle the U.S. Senate’s filibuster.
Published: Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 @ 2:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Monday, a Meredith College poll was released in North Carolina showing former State Senator Erica Smith neck and neck with State Senator Jeff Jackson, aka Cal Jr., in a Democrat Primary.
Published: Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 @ 3:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Joe Biden supports changing the filibuster in the Senate to pre-1970 rules when senators had to hold the floor for hours to prevent a vote on a controversial bill.
Published: Thursday, March 18th, 2021 @ 11:32 am
By: Daily Wire
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned Senate Democrats on Tuesday of what the Republican Party would do if Democrats attempted to go for a power grab by eliminating the legislative filibuster.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 8:02 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Monday night, GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared that his battle to keep the Senate filibuster in place had been won.
Published: Friday, January 29th, 2021 @ 3:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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What a big week in news, and what a bad week for the core Democrat Resistance Movement, and their representatives in the Democrat Caucuses and in "hallowed halls" of the Fake News.
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 @ 10:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There were enough votes to pass the Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate, for the Federal Budget to not have a lapse in funding, on a simple majority vote; however, failed to win the 60 votes to avoid a Democrat filibuster, and therefore failed here in the literal eleventh hour.
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2018 @ 1:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Yesterday, Senators Thom Tillis joined in a colloquy on the Senate floor to speak about the Democratic filibuster of the FY 2017 Defense Appropriations Bill
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2016 @ 12:33 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) again joined Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Steve Daines (R-MT) in a colloquy on the Senate floor to call on Minority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Democrats to end their filibuster of the FY 2017 Defense Appropriations Bill
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2016 @ 2:07 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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To address the concerns of smaller states, representation was equally assigned to all of the states in the Union. Every state got TWO.
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Senator Ted Cruz has fulfilled his election promise to do everything it takes to stop Obamacare. To that end, he has commenced a talking filibuster against the budget CR, which Harry Reid plans to use as a conduit for reinserting funding to Obamacare.
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 3:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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