filibuster

People often picture the filibuster as one senator standing and speaking for hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Cloture, which is what we usually mean when we talk about the filibuster today, came much later in the Senate’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

With the questioning complete, Alvarado’s filibuster was the last hurdle.

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

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

In 1838, while residing in the United States, organized a force of 600 filibusters, and invaded Canada, making his headquarters at Napierville, and as president of a provisional government proclaimed a Canadian republic.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

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

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

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

Forth was so prolific at "filibustering" backbenchers bills that the Friday sessions in the House of Commons, where the bills are debated, gained the nickname "Eric Forth's killing fields".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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

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