Filibusters
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats said Thursday that Republicans were preventing votes on some of President Barack Obama's U.S.
WASHINGTON - Those who hold the Senate in low esteem can get a sympathetic ear from some of the chamber's newer members.
WASHINGTON - After a take-it-or-leave-it vote by the Senate, House Democrats face little choice but to drop more than $20 billion in domestic spending from a must-pass bill funding President Barack Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON - West Virginia Democrat Carte Goodwin replaced the Senate's oldest member as its youngest Tuesday, becoming part of a small caucus of freshman seat-warmers with little seniority but outsized power in the closely divided chamber.
WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee has won a weeklong delay in scheduled action to send Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate for confirmation.
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