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 ...
Every day, Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, who represents 6th District in the Nebraska state legislature, carpools to work with her younger brother, John, who represents the 9th District. It’s a 55-minute ...
There has been a record number of anti-LBGTQ bills introduced in state legislatures this year, and state senator are doing what they can to stop hateful change. Nebraska Democratic state senator ...
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 ...
Exhausted but energized, the lawmakers filibustering to stop an anti-trans law are nowhere near done
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 ...
Today, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis will attempt to spend 13 hours filibustering a generally senseless state law that would, effectively, ban abortion within the state of Texas. As of this writing, ...
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 ...
It was a mundane, unanimously supported bill on liquor taxation that saw state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh take to the mic on the Nebraska Legislature floor last week. She offered her support, then spent ...
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 ...
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 ...
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