cloture

WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won approval April 3 for a huge reduction in the amount of time the upper chamber can debate most presidential nominees, from 30 to two ...

WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took a huge first step Wednesday afternoon to enacting a new rule limiting ...

WASHINGTON—Exasperated Republicans failed April 2 in their effort to short-circuit Democrats’ unprecedented obstruction of confirmation of President Donald ...

WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats have forced cloture votes 128 times on President Donald Trump nominees to the federal courts and ...

WASHINGTON—Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and his Republican colleagues are sick and tired of Democrats constantly delaying confirmation of ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed for cloture on Oct. 3, seeking to resolve the filibuster and bring ...