A filibuster is a tactic used in the United States Senate to delay or block a vote on a measure by preventing debate on it from ending.: 2  The Senate's...

m. the following day, a duration of 24 hours and 18 minutes. This made the filibuster the longest single-person filibuster in United States Senate history...

A filibuster is a political procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to delay or entirely...

in the wake of a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, launched a filibuster in the United States Senate,...

the U.S. Senate The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and people of the party leadership of the...

of the political and legislative delaying act of filibustering in the United States Congress, especially in the upper chamber of the U.S. Senate. The English...

ending filibusters in the United States Senate. In 1829, the sergeant at arms began supervising Senate pages, after the appointment of the first page. In 1854...

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress. The Senate and the United States House of Representatives (which is the lower...

The 2024 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections. 33 out of the 100 seats...

United States senators are conventionally ranked by the length of their tenure in the Senate. The senator in each U.S. state with the longer time in office...

The president pro tempore of the United States Senate (often shortened to president pro tem) is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States...

The 2008 United States Senate elections were held on November 4, 2008, with 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested. 33 seats were up for regular...

campaigned in Georgia, because of the election's potential to determine whether the Democratic Party could block filibusters in the United States Senate. Historically...

The 2024 United States Senate election in Arizona will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state...

The Standing Rules of the Senate are the parliamentary procedures adopted by the United States Senate that govern its procedure. The Senate's power to...

relevant hostilities." The Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007 failed to overcome a Republican filibuster in the United States Senate in September, 2007....

The Senate Republican Conference is the formal organization of the Republican senators in the United States Senate, who number 49 as of 2023[update]. Over...

The Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate, sometimes referred to as the Democratic Conference, is the formal organization of all senators who...

In the United States Senate, the nuclear option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the Senate to override a standing rule by a simple majority,...

The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 118th United States Congress...

The 2010 United States Senate elections were held on November 2, 2010, from among the United States Senate's 100 seats. A special election was held on...

in the United States Senate. Senators can be a member of more than one committee. As of 2017[update], there are 88 subsidiary bodies of the US Senate:...

19 November 2008. "Filibuster and Cloture". United States Senate. Koger, Gregory Cloture Reform and Party Government in the Senate, 1918–1925, Journal...

The Seal of the United States Senate is the seal officially adopted by the United States Senate to authenticate certain official documents. Its design...

This article covers the history of women in the United States Senate and various milestones achieved by female senators. It includes a list of all women...

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprises...

The Parliamentarian of the United States Senate is the official advisor to the United States Senate on the interpretation of Standing Rules of the United...

The 1980 United States Senate elections were held on November 4, coinciding with Ronald Reagan's victory in the presidential election. The 34 Senate seats...

The 1978 United States Senate elections were held on November 7, in the middle of Democratic President Jimmy Carter's term. The 33 seats of Class 2 were...

The 2010 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts was a special election held on January 19, 2010, in order to fill the Massachusetts Class...