filibuster
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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 Platner campaign did not respond to a request for comment on these endorsements or on Mills’ public statements about the filibuster.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2026
The talking filibuster doesn’t provide a way around this.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
There was even a type of speech called the filibuster, whose sole purpose was to waste time.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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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
Burtnett represented himself as a sympathizer; he joined the filibusters and wormed himself into the confidence of the leaders.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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
When other ambassadors filibustered, she would wear a snail pin to demonstrate her impatience.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
The law gives Congress the ability to overturn a regulation with a simple majority in both chambers, and it cannot be filibustered in the Senate.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
Indemnity, Stevens's bill of passes House, 198; combined with habeas corpus bill, 199; debated, filibustered against, and passed, 200-203.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
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
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
State senators Danielle Conrad and Jen Day also joined the team in filibustering all legislation.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023
In the margin, Cecily had drawn a hilarious picture of a Roman senator named Cato the Younger who was famous for his filibustering.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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