filibuster

NIA hopes to see Rand Paul filibuster any attempts by the U. S. Senate to raise the ceiling on our national debt.

Republicans have the right to filibuster under centuries-old rules that this page has long defended.

She recently threatened a filibuster to kill legislation that would have increased industry liability in the event of a spill.

Her support would probably give Mr Obama the 60 votes he needs in the upper chamber to see off a Republican filibuster.

He had become a master of evasion: his main response to criticism is to threaten, filibuster and delay.

Yet today the Senate conducts its business, or not, under the constant threat of a filibuster.

But too often, the Republican leadership in the United States Senate chooses to filibuster our recovery and obstruct our progress.

And Republicans suffered a further setback on Monday in their fight to stop the Democrats winning a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

With the election of Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, Democrats can no longer hold off a Republican filibuster.

Having lost their supermajority in the Senate, the Democrats resorted to a questionable budget procedure to defeat a filibuster.

The bill will need several Republican votes to pass, with Democrats already one vote shy of a filibuster-proof majority.

The reconciliation bill was part of the Democratic leadership's parliamentary manoeuvre to avoid a filibuster in the Senate.

The filibuster procedure in the US Senate has been used over many years to prevent decisions on many sensible matters.

In an attempted filibuster to upset the bill's passage, opposition parties have submitted hundreds of amendments.

He had become a master of easion: his main response to criticism is to threaten, filibuster and delay.

Now, if the Republicans could sustain a filibuster, our health-care plan would be dead on arrival.

Having failed to overcome the 60-vote hurdle to end a Senate filibuster, Mr Obama watched his $450bn jobs bill grind to a halt last week.

Next week, however, members of the upper legislative house may override the filibuster to support a deeply dangerous idea.

The result gives the Democrats 60 votes in the Senate, enough to break a filibuster.

Organizing or carry out of a filibuster.

one that is big enough to make it extremely hard for the Republicans to block legislation by use of the filibuster.

Some frustrated Democrats have even suggested doing away with the filibuster, a much bigger step towards simple majority rule.

Weekly Address: President Obama Says GOP Senate Leadership Choosing to "Filibuster Our Recovery and Obstruct Our Progress"

If all of them choose to support a filibuster, then you take it to the American people and show the obstructionists for what they are.

The filibuster is an incomprehensible device of government.

NDP MPs will need to start saving their breath if they hope to stave off privatisation with a filibuster.

In theory, Republicans could mount a filibuster, but blocking a judge is not like blocking a law.

The response is the filibuster and, as my colleague James Fallows has so aptly pointed out, the media myth of "false equivalence. "

A bathroom break at four in the morning terminated the senator's filibuster and his motion was defeated.

The procedural vote in the Senate last week on financial reform did more than end a Republican filibuster.

It would take just one Republican to give Mr. Reid the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster and open debate.

In particular, tax increases at the federal level don't require a two- thirds majority, and can in some cases bypass the filibuster.

Until it is filled, the Democrats will lack the crucial 60 senators needed to break a filibuster.

Of course, these pages were less eager to abolish the filibuster when the idea was floated by the Republicans in 2005, but put that aside.

Confirmation vote was delayed by a filibuster.

American senators have resorted to filibusters now and again for 170 years (click left for table).

But they need 60 votes (out of 100) in the Senate to get past a Republican filibuster, and they do not have them.

Originally senators had actually talk when they want a filibuster.

The senate allows for an unlimited debate in order to filibuster something, a bill, a vote, whatever.

For Abdul - muta filibuster the final decision on January 12 next year, in federal court.

It takes 60 votes out of 100 to end a filibuster, so 41 senators can block almost anything.

Psst. . Patty! See if you can start a filibuster.

It takes three feets of senator end that debate and end the filibuster.

Senator Robert Byrd, who was handling the proposal, was adamant that if we didn't bend, we could break the filibuster.

The Republicans can hope to pick up 4 seats, reducing the Democrats from their present filibuster-proof 60 (counting independents) to 56.

Now you don't need to speak continously in order to filibuster.

In the Senate, Republicans have just enough votes to mount a filibuster and block bills.

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fell victim to a Republican filibuster in the Senate