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 ...

State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh speaks before the Nebraska Legislature Monday, March 13, 2023, at the Nebraska State Capital in Lincoln, Neb. Cavanaugh is in her third week of an effort to filibuster ...

Texas House Democrats escaping to the capital to avoid voting on new election laws is straight-up hypocritical, Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday on "Hannity." GOV. ABBOTT: What's going on in Texas with ...

In one of the great implosions in congressional history, Senate Republicans are turning the great deliberative body into a banana republic insti­tution, and turning electoral disadvantage into an ...

Every night, Democratic Nebraska state Senators Machaela Cavanaugh, Megan Hunt, and Jen Day make the hour drive from the state capitol in Lincoln to their homes in Omaha, exhausted from speaking for ...

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 ...

Contrary to recent mythology, there has never been a Senate tradition of filibustering nominees to the Supreme Court. Only once in history has there been a clear attempt to filibuster a first-time ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nebraska state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, a Democrat, about her weeks-long filibuster over a bill she says is "legislating hate." Nebraska lawmakers haven't passed a single ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - Another day of filibustering in the Nebraska Legislature. Unlike Monday, this time we heard pushback from other senators. Neither side is prepared to blink first. “It seems to ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. FAIRWAY, KS — On May 15, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the state Capitol in Lincoln, NE, to ...