Emmet Bondurant, the lead attorney for the lawsuit and member of the governing board of Common Cause, expresses the unconstitutionality of the filibuster rule.

Representative Henry (“Hank”) Johnson (D-Ga.) discusses the implications of the filibuster rule.

Representative Henry (“Hank”) Johnson (D-Ga.) expresses his concern for national security that is at risk thanks to the filibuster rule.

Representative Michael Michaud (D-Maine) discusses the implications of the filibuster rule.

Olympia Snowe says that “political polarization” in the Senate is at the root of her decision to leave the upper chamber. In a Washington Post op-ed published Thursday evening, Snowe lamented the Senate has routinely ignored basic protocol, citing the inability to raisee the debt ceiling until the last minute…

National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley issued the following statement Thursday denouncing legislation that would extend a pay freeze placed on federal workers in 2009. “Federal employees, who safeguard our air and water, defend our borders and ports, and keep our food and medicines safe, have already contributed $60 billion…

Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Jon Tester (D-MT) led a phone conference Monday regarding the STOCK (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge) Act, first introduced on November 15, 2011, and was voted by a rare bipartison procedural vote of 93-2, later that afternoon. Personally endorsed by President Obama…

Sen. Kent Conrad, Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, in an attempt to debunk claims that a budget had not been passed by the Senate in 1,000 days, pointed to the Budget Control Act of 2011, in a response to rhetoric by GOP that today is the “thousandth day this…

Today, Sen. Charles Schumer went before the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and proposed a one-year “deferred action” legal status to immigrants whose court removal cases have been administratively closed under new immigration initiatives. A long-time proponent of immigrant reform, Senator Schumer has…