filibuster

The filibuster was once a rarely used tool for holding up Senate business. Now, it's a regular (still powerful) feature; some Democrats want it changed. Here are answers to your filibuster questions.

From Texas Standard: The filibuster – in which a senator or group of senators can control the Senate floor as long as they continue speaking – is a tool...

The Senate Democratic leader says Judge Gorsuch is not independent of President Trump.

From Texas Standard:If Democrats hope to block the Republican agenda in the executive and legislative branches, they may need an old tool of the Senate ...

Cruz has not been the buzz candidate so far in the GOP's 2016 discussions — nor the media's. In fact, he has seemed at times a bit of a faded rose, a skyrocket that has spent much of its sparkle.

With a midnight tweet, Ted Cruz became the first major candidate to announce he is running for president. But Cruz faces an uphill climb against better-funded and better-known candidates.