A defining feature of the U.S. Senate for more than two centuries, the concept of using long speeches to delay action or bring awareness to a cause has been at the heart of some of the most ...

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 ...

Today, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis will attempt to spend 13 hours filibustering a generally senseless state law that would, effectively, ban abortion within the state of Texas. As of this writing, ...

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No matter the outcome of last night's Texas legislative debate, it was clear to everyone watching that the world of politics had found itself a new hero in Wendy Davis, the tennis-shoe wearing, ...

British PM Keir Starmer speaks to journalists after meeting on Ukraine, in Paris LONDON (Reuters) -Russia is stalling progress towards a peace deal in Ukraine, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said ...

President Obama is imploring the Senate to take up his forthcoming nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court — a decade after he himself sought to block the nomination of Samuel ...

On Wednesday night, Tucker Carlson took on former U.N. ambassador Nancy Soderberg over the latest developments on the Obama-era Uranium One Deal that reportedly involved Russian corruption that was ...

Yesterday, Texas Senator and Goddamn Hero Wendy Davis intended to stand for 13 hours, filibustering before her fellow state senators to block abortion-restricting legislation known as Senate Bill 5 ...

During her remarks in a Senate hearing in January, Senator Elissa Slotkin mocked Pete Hegseth over his inability to answer a simple question. Slotkin stated, "I get it; you're filibustering." ...

Representative Seth Magaziner put Kristi Noem in her place during a recent House hearing recently, stopping her from filibustering. Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted ...