filibuster

In 1964 opponents of the Civil Rights Act attempted to stop the legislation with a filibuster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The legislation still faces a full Senate vote and requires seven Democratic votes to avoid a filibuster.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

On the topic of the legislative filibuster, put to one side the matter of court and cabinet nominations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

So it’s a bit like a filibuster, except she’s just sitting in an empty room.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025

There was even a type of speech called the filibuster, whose sole purpose was to waste time.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The 60-year-old lawyer has pledged to protect "natural wealth" from "21st-century filibusters who want to privatise everything" if she wins.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025

Justice John Paul Stevens pressed Bopp on whether the ads were genuinely intended to influence Sen. Feingold’s stance on filibusters.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025

Together they ruminate about the good old days of L.A. when they’re not storming city council meetings with dramatic filibusters about bus schedules.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

The bill must get 33 votes Thursday and again in a later third round of debate to overcome filibusters and pass.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

"Never mind, when Frankston, Telfer, and Co. get the control of the South Sea Island trade, there won't be any room for dashing filibusters, will there, Charley?"

From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood

The resolution cannot be filibustered, and needs just a simple majority in the House and Senate to pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

Three times, the women in the Senate and three Republican male colleagues successfully filibustered.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2023

The defeat drew national headines in no small part because of how it went down: The only five women in the Senate, three of whom are Republicans, filibustered the bill into oblivion.

From Salon ● May 8, 2023

With the Civil Rights Act being filibustered in the Senate, King arrived in St. Augustine in mid-May, in part to highlight the persistence and brutality of racial injustice.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022

He actually got these boys to think it could be filibustered into his possession.

From A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories by Bret Harte

Leadbeater has said the majority of peers back her proposals but that a small group of opponents were trying to talk the bill out, also known as filibustering.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

He literally makes no sense half the time and the rest of the time he's filibustering, lying, bullying and deflecting.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024

The filibustering, formally one of the Dodgers’ allotted five mound visits for the game, proved effective.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

By late February, Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, an Omaha Democrat elected alongside Ms. Hunt in 2018, began filibustering during virtually every legislative session, aiming to pressure Republicans into shelving the bill.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

"My kid," Hambro said, "filibustering against going to bed. A real sea lawyer, that kid."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison