The Senate cloture rule requires 60 members to end debate on most topics and move to a vote (USA: Brookings 2021)

Official website. The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which, along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—constitutes the legislature of the United States (USA 2014-21).

Unterrichtsanregungen und Texte zur Problematisierung der Funktionsweise des US-Senats (USA: Teachable Moment 2010-20)

Tom Richey explains the powers of the distinctive characteristics of the two houses of the United States Congress: the Senate and the House of Representatives (7 minutes / USA 2020).

The filibuster is a powerful legislative device in the United States Senate, but reconciliation provides a process to prevent the use of the filibuster and thereby allow the passage of a bill with simple majority support in the Senate (2021).

Official website (2014)

The 6,000-page report details actions by CIA officials and findings of the study of the Detention and Interrogation Program between 2001 and 2006 during the ʺWar on Terrorʺ. The final report was approved on December 13, 2012, by a vote of 9–6, with seven Democrats, one Independent, and one Republican voting in favor of publication and six Republicans voting in opposition ...

Official website: The United States House of Representatives is the lower house of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper house. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States (2014-21).

Students analyze historical records of the House and Senate to understand the sequence of steps in the legislative process (National Archives, USA 2014).

C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) überträgt Hearings und Debatten im House of Representatives und im Senate (USA 2010-20).