The U.S. Senate has been dysfunctional for decades. There has been a lack of debate on bills thanks to procedural tactics used by the leadership of both parties that marginalized rank-and-file ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, speak at a conference inside the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters following a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans at the ...

Senate Democrats have panned the GOP’s push for voter ID legislation as akin to segregationist laws from the Deep South, but the architect of the bill in the Senate says their arguments are detached ...

WASHINGTON — Utah Sen. Mike Lee is pushing to change how the Senate filibuster works, lamenting that the procedural tool has gotten in the way of Republicans passing their agenda despite controlling ...