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The US Senate is considering reforms to its filibuster rules, which could alter the power dynamics and lawmaking process in the Senate.
is a set of practices and rules that effectively require 60 votes to end debate on most legislation (the cloture rule), a threshold set in 1975 and reinforced by modern practice . Reform proposals ran...
to modify or abolish filibuster cluster around a small set of technical and political moves: abolish it outright (often called the “”), restore or tighten floor-speaking requirements, change who must ...
A slate of targeted procedural fixes—ranging from a “talking filibuster,” carve-outs for voting and democracy bills, a “step‑down” cloture process or one‑off nuclear option, and raising the floor for ...
Multiple reform efforts have repeatedly reshaped—but not eliminated—the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold: an initial cloture rule was adopted in 1917, the threshold was lowered to 60 votes in 1975 a...