Paul's filibuster brings to mind a question: Will his filibuster come close to any of his Senatorial forebears? The longest spoken filibuster in American history was by Sen. Strom Thurmond of ...

Last month, Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in response to the ...

South Korean opposition parties set a new world record for the longest filibuster, Friday, continuing their speeches for the fourth consecutive day to protest an anti-terrorism bill pushed by the ...

Strom Thurmond's (Dixiecrat, S.C.) infamous 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act — at 24 hours and 18 minutes, it still holds the record in the U.S. Senate — the actual record for longest ...

When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom whereby a supermajority of 60 votes is required to pass legislation.

But there has long been Senate precedent for that means (see, e.g., Gold article at pp. 260–269). The legislative filibuster owes its continued existence not to any formal obstacle that would ...

MERKLEY: Of course, my argument is for the talking filibuster, which means that as long as the Democrats in the minority maintain a continuous presence on the floor speaking, they can block a bill.