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

Former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster in opposition to landmark civil rights legislation remains the longest in history at just over 24 hours. Last month, Senate Democrats ...

(for James) Strom Thurmond, 59, one of the Senate’s deepest ... in 1957, during a one-man filibuster against pending civil rights legislation, Thurmond kept talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes ...

The budget hawks are pushing for additional and highly controversial spending cuts. They’re also looking to put a strict ...

We don't know what Strom Thurmond would have done if Trent Lott's dream of his ... of the forces of segregation in the United States Senate, keeping in shape to set filibuster records against civil ...

Strom Thurmond blasted Fortas's votes in a series of pornography ... On Sept. 25, 1968, they began a filibuster, beating back a motion to end debate, with Republican leader Everett Dirksen, once a ...

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.