Videos
September 14, 2023
Patty Murray, D-Wash., asks unanimous consent to set up Senate consideration of a minibus spending bill.
July 13, 2011
Senator Pat Toomey, R-Pa., discusses the debt limit and how to raise it in 2011.
December 9, 2019
Members of Congress make points of order and raise parliamentary inquiries during an impeachment hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee.
April 3, 2019
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks in support of the nuclear option.
June 26, 2019
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., fills the amendment tree on the National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1790).
April 3, 2019
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks in opposition to the nuclear option.
April 3, 2019
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., raises a point of order that post-cloture debate time for some executive branch nomination is two hours and appeals the ruling of the Chair.
April 3, 2019
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., raises a point of order that post-cloture debate time for some judicial nominations is two hours and appeals the ruling of the Chair.
January 30, 2019
Senate blocks amendment offered by John Kennedy, R-La., to the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 (S. 1).
March 25, 2010
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., makes a motion to proceed to a bill and files cloture on it over the objections of Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, and Senate Democrats.
March 16, 1995
The Senate creates a new precedent reversing the ruling of the Chair that an amendment offered by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tex., to a supplemental appropriations bill violated Rule XVI.