filibuster

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has suggested Congress could enact the idea through reconciliation, a process lawmakers used to pass a tax and spending law last year and avoid the filibuster.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

The talking filibuster doesn’t provide a way around this.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025

A highly caffeinated New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, of 25-hour filibuster fame, summoned past glories and urged Democrats to find their way back to the party’s grounding principles, then fight from there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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

Colin Robinson filibusters with fabricated stories about his nonexistent children and defends empty stances simply to drain his audience of their will to live.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023

While the rebellion was in progress, he resided in Cleveland, Ohio, where he saw a good deal of the American filibusters who took part in the attempt to capture Canada at that period.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles

Normally senators are assigned to committees by unanimous consent, but that motion can be filibustered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

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

Nebraska’s filibuster rules are less severe than in other states, some of which forbid lawmakers from sitting, taking a bathroom break or speaking on anything other than bill being filibustered.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

We bribed, intimidated, and filibustered in swaddling clothes, and stole a governorship as early as 1791.

From The Henchman by Luther, Mark Lee

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