Trump is ramping up pressure on Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster—an action known as the “nuclear option.” ...

Spending on U.S. House of Representatives office accounts increased by more than 85% over the past three decades but nearly ...

David French is an Opinion columnist, writing about law, culture, religion and armed conflict. He is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a former constitutional litigator. His most recent book is ...

It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate Republicans to end the custom of the filibuster, which has bedeviled majority parties for years.

Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats' unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate eliminate the ...

With major shutdown impacts beginning to set in, a scholar of Congress says the House has all but abdicated its position as ...

The Senate was created to represent the interests of the states and to slow down radical measures from the House, but it has failed to live up to its ideal due to a lack of deliberation, ...