Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A defining feature of the U.S. Senate for more than two centuries, the concept of using long speeches to delay action or bring ...
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A disabled peer has hit back at months of attacks on her and other opponents of the assisted suicide bill that accuse them of ...
While working as a legislator, I try to incorporate my life experiences of growing up and working in Cole County into the way I do my job now. When I was on the farm, I would get extremely upset when ...
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She is now simply Wendy. As the leader of a last-minute fight against a rigid antiabortion bill, the filibustering, pink-sneaker-shod, Harvard Law School–trained, hardscrabble Texas-raised state ...
Contrary to recent mythology, there has never been a Senate tradition of filibustering nominees to the Supreme Court. Only once in history has there been a clear attempt to filibuster a first-time ...
On Thursday, news that Nebraska Democrats narrowly defeated a six-week abortion ban came as a shock, as state after state—particularly in the Midwest and the South—passes bans in the aftermath of Roe ...
Every night, Democratic Nebraska state Senators Machaela Cavanaugh, Megan Hunt, and Jen Day make the hour drive from the state capitol in Lincoln to their homes in Omaha, exhausted from speaking for ...
Harold Hutchison is a contributor to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, left Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas stumbling during a Wednesday hearing by ...
Sen. Cory Booker was not officially filibustering, a practice that dates back to 1789. A defining feature of the U.S. Senate for more than two centuries, the concept of using long speeches to delay ...