Washington: Senator Strom Thurmond is mobbed by reporters as he steps from the Senate Chamber after ending his 24-hour, 18-minutes talkathon against...
Washington, D. C.: Last night the Senate passed the Civil Rights Bill by a vote of 60-15 and removed the last roadblock in the way of the adjournment...
Rep. Cori Bush listens during a news conference outside of the U.S. Capitol Building on May 10, 2022 in Washington, DC. Bush, along with other House...
Panoramic view made in the State House here during the heated filibuster session showing Lieutenant Governor Toupin ordering the Sherrif to place the...
Sen. Cory Booker walks toward reporters after delivering a record setting floor speech for the U.S. Senate at the U.S. Capitol on April 01, 2025 in...
Senate Republican leaders William F. Knowland is shown being interviewed by White House newsmen after a meeting with President Eisenhower this...
Senate barber Abe Highley gets Senator Henry Jackson, , of Washington, back into tonsorial shape here, after the Senator took the floor for the...
Senate majority leader William F. Knowland California, is shown as he met with President Eisenhower at the White House yesterday to brief the chief...
Big Groups of Senators Who Caucused on Filibuster. Left to right standing: Senators Jason F. Murray ; John S. Cooper , Ky.; Clifford P. Case , N.J.;...
General William Walker of Nicaragua . American Filibuster elected President of Nicaragua in 1856. Shown praying with a priest before his execution in...
Grenada, Nicaragua: American filibuster William Walker in the Presidential Mansion, Grenada, Nicaragua. He was elected president of Nicaragua in...
Illustration from portrait of "The Famous Filibuster", General William Walker . American who was elected President of Nicaragua in 1856. Undated...
Washington, D.C.: Senator Frank Church announces at a news conference that he and Senator James B. Pearson will join in leading the fight to change...
Photo shows Senator Powers and Lieutenant Governor Toupin, speaker in the Rhode Island State House, conferring on the possibilities of the filibuster...
Anne L. Tague, shown in photo, Assistant Secretary to Governor Flynn of Rhode island, and niece of Congressman Tague of Massachusetts, who has worked...
Boston Senator A.J. Fourtier, of Pawtucket, and Senator John J. McGrane, of Providence, eating during recess during the Legislative filibuster at the...
Washington: The Senate, convening on Sunday for the first time since before the Civil War, failed to halt a filibuster that has tied up campaign...
Riot in Diet. Tokyo, Japan. Upper House President Tsuruhei Matsuno has an unidentified Diet guard in his lap as guards seek to protect him form...
Weary after failing to break an all night filibuster, Senate Republicans visit the Capitol Barber Shop to receive a "refreshing treatment." This...
Senator Morse Relazes. Beallsville, Md.: Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon independent, rides his champion five-gaited stallion, "Morris Chief," as he...
Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon Independent, spruces up after speaking for eight hours and four minutes in the drawn-out Senate debate on the Atomic...
Senate majority leader William F. Knowland, California, is shown holding a "cloture petition" backed by signatures of 38 colleagues, in a move to...
Senators and Senate pages alike grew increasingly weary in the seemingly endless Senate debate on the administration's Atomic Energy Bill. These...
Senate GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen stacks up some of the reading material October 4th that will use in his planned filibuster against a bill to...
Senator Albert Gore Tennessee gives a reasonable facsimile here of his appearance in the Senate Monday when he took the floor at 1 PM and held it...
In the U.S. Capitol, Malcolm X tells assembled journalists that a Senate filibuster of a civil rights bill would a produce a "spontaneous" march on...
Left to right are shown Senator Fred Austin, Senator John Powers, and Lieutenant Governor Toupin of Rhode Island, in conference after the gas attack...
Senate majority leader William F. Knowland and minority leader Lyndon B. Johnson are all smiles as they chat together after the Senate recesses late...
Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon Independent, who has been most vocal in the 86-hour Senate filibuster to block the impending Atomic Bill, cools his...
Illustration , entitled 'Citizens for Trouble-Making Only,' depicts the figure of Columbia as she stands between two figures labeled 'Cuban...
State Sen. Jose Rodriguez celebrates with State Sen. Wendy Davis as the Democrats defeat the anti-abortion bill SB5, which was up for a vote on the...
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer speaks to members of the press after a Senate Democratic Caucus meeting on January 18, 2022 in Washington,...
Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, begins a filibuster of SB 5 a bill that would tighten regulations on abortion providers in Texas, on the last day of...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid arrives for a press conference with Sen. Charles Schumer and Sen. Richard Durbin after the U.S. Senate passed the...
Sen. Cory Booker speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate Chamber after delivering a record setting floor speech at the U.S. Capitol on April 01,...
Sen. Cory Booker speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate Chamber after delivering a record setting floor speech at the U.S. Capitol on April 01,...
'Pirates Boarding a Spanish Vessel in the West Indies', engraving from 'The History and Lives of the most Notorious Pirates', by an old Seaman, n.d.
The Spanish Armada destroyed by Captaine Morgan, engraving. The Welsh privateer, Sir Henry Morgan, attacking the Spanish Armada off the coast of...
State Sen. Wendy Davis holds up two fingers against the anti-abortion bill SB5, which was up for a vote on the last day of the legislative special...
'Sir Henry Morgan, the Buccaneer, before Panama', engraving. The city of Panama, that Sir Henry Morgan invaded sacked and burned in 1671, is attacked...
The Spanish Armada destroyed by Captaine Morgan, engraving. The Welsh privateer, Sir Henry Morgan, attacking the Spanish Armada off the coast of...
'The Tryals of Sixteen Persons for Piracy', title-page of trial accounts from July 4 in Boston, Massachusetts. Four of the sixteen were convicted....
Families stand together during a demonstration to oppose the Senate filibuster on July 26, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona. Community residents, activists,...
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to members of the media after presiding over a vote on a sweeping voting rights bill at the Capitol June 22, 2021...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer , flanked by Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Cory Booker arrives for a news conference following a Senate democratic...
Sen. Ted Cruz speaks during a news conference before attending a weekly Senate Policy Luncheon on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 in...
May 12: Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn., with business leaders and representatives of interest groups during a news...
May 12: Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., with business leaders and representatives of interest groups during a news...
Sen. Lamar Alexander and Sen. Judd Gregg talk with reporters about the possibility of the use of reconciliation to pass health care reform...
James Wolfe former director of security with the Senate Intelligence Committee escorts former FBI Director James Comey out of hearing room in the...
James Wolfe former director of security with the Senate Intelligence Committee escorts former FBI Director James Comey out of hearing room in the...
James Wolfe former director of security with the Senate Intelligence Committee escorts former FBI Director James Comey out of hearing room in the...
James Wolfe former director of security with the Senate Intelligence Committee escorts former FBI Director James Comey out of hearing room in the...
James Wolfe former director of security with the Senate Intelligence Committee escorts former FBI Director James Comey out of hearing room in the...
James Wolfe former director of security with the Senate Intelligence Committee escorts former FBI Director James Comey out of hearing room in the...
Sen.-elect Scott P. Brown is surrounded by reporters as he heads toward a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., at the U.S....
President Barack Obama makes a statement on the SAVE program with Office of Management and Budget Director Peter R. Orszag , Secretary of Veterans...
President Barack Obama makes a statement on the SAVE program in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on December 21, 2009 in Washington,...
Sen. Joe Lieberman talks with reporters after a Democratic policy luncheon in the U.S. Capitol October 27, 2009 in Washington, DC. Lieberman said...
House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks to members of the media after her 8-hour long speech on immigration at the Capitol February 7, 2018 in...
