filibuster

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

They wanted to know if she’d filibuster H.B.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 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

During the debate, he 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

"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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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

When other ambassadors filibustered, she would wear a snail pin to demonstrate her impatience.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

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

From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

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