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 - ...

Are we heading toward another government shutdown this week? Here's the latest updates on a Senate vote on spending bills ...

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 ...

Senate Democrats advocating for developing a big legislative package to combat climate change want nothing to do with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s move toward a Green New Deal vote. The ...

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.

Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The Constitution gives the president the power to nominate and, with ...