Graham: Use budget reconciliation to bypass filibuster and pass border security legislation
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of President-elect Trump’s strongest allies in the Senate, is calling on Republicans to ...
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GOP takes control of Senate with 3-seat pickup, but 60-vote threshold still poses agenda challenge
The GOP's first win Senate pickup this cycle came early on election night when Jim Justice, West Virginia's GOP governor, ...
What a Republican Senate takeover means for Donald Trump
Yes — to answer the question some readers are probably asking — the filibuster rule is likely to endure, which in turn ...
What to expect when you're expecting a GOP trifecta
But most Cabinet nominations succeed when the White House and the Senate are controlled by the same party – especially since Democrats rolled back the filibuster to allow a president's picks to be ...
Rubio: If They Win, Democrats Will Get Rid Of The Filibuster To Ram Through All Their Radical Agenda
Sen. Marco Rubio warned that Democrats will change the rules of the Senate to allow them to pass laws with a 51% Senate ...
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As power shifts in Washington, McConnell says filibuster safe
The numbers in the Senate also could make Trump's efforts to add conservatives to the federal judiciary easier because such ...
Republicans unify control of U.S. government: What to expect when Trump takes office
Republicans have won the Senate and are poised to maintain power in the House. That's good news for President-elect Trump and his agenda.