The Senate held a cloture vote Friday to send Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to a vote Saturday. What is a cloture vote and why is it important? A cloture vote ends debate on the subject in question - ...

One of the Senate’s most important responsibilities is to provide “advice and consent” for the president’s nominations. America’s Founders saw this as a “silent operation,” with the possibility of ...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer deployed a rarely used parliamentary maneuver Wednesday to try to force Republicans to vote on requiring the release of Justice Department files on Jeffrey ...

An initial vote was made Friday on whether to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. With most of the Senate declared their intentions beforehand, all ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 51-49 on Wednesday to kill a Democratic motion that would have forced the Senate to vote in the coming days on requiring the Trump administration to make public its files ...

October 8, 2025 Motion by Senator Schumer to reconsider the vote by which the second cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure was not invoked (Record Vote No. 544) in Senate by Voice Vote.